Rearranged my rack. Lost the Little Dot III+, and made space for the Arcam DV-139 you see in the background, and a McIntosh MHA-100 I expect to be buying next week.
What is presently my first and second string of headphones positioned on the front and rear rack respectively.
Thank for the comments. Correct as stated. Standard 19" open frame rack.
Most similar racks go for $100~ish more. This particular unit is this one and quite affordable:
http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=N82E16816133039
With my current equipment the rear frame is completely superfluous. Well it does serve as a nice headphone stand. But once I buy a couple of 19" power strip brackets, and the monster 25lb McIntosh amp, I'll be bolting all to the rear hoop too.
Regarding the Rane. I waited months for the 6S to sell on eBay for a reasonable price (the 'S' being the important part). It uses an output push pull bipolar device pair as a buffer/current gain stage. It essentially has double the power out as the non 'S'. Power to all headphones is power supply limited; the specs state a reduction in power output for one channel driven vs all. However I only have signal going to one pair of channels, so it doesn't effect me.
I've tried listening tests with everything connected but volume only going to one of the 6 channel pairs, then every thing disconnected except what i was listening to. I could not be sure if I heard a difference in bass slam or it was just a placebo effect. Sometimes I thought I heard the slightest of differences. On retries I often did not. Logic would tell you with a headphone connected but no signal to it, it should not load the power supply and affect the 2 stereo channels driven.
better than I expected, I would say, given the general purpose opamps it uses for the balanced input buffer and main gain stage. It's quiet (as far as these affected ears can tell). It's a very crisp, lively sounding amp with lot's of power. I have only driven it using the main balanced input, from my Adcom DAC's balanced outputs. And with the input at max to take advantage of a hot input (being pro gear it can handle a large input signal swing before clipping) I can rarely turn the output volume over 3.
My amps I have experience with are a Little Dot II+ & III+ and a Perreaux Class-A (forget the model #) solid state amp, the latter of which I wouldn't hesitate to say is a better amp than any one pair of channels of the 12 channel Rane. .
Does anyone know if a marantz CD5005 optical audio will also play the radio through it? (I'm wanting to use the optical audio with my Schiit Audio) and play CDs as well as the radio
I know it might be overkill, but I bought these desktop racks on a whim. Codia Stage 1000 and TAKT Den-LD, all made in South Korea.
http://imgur.com/1NWPssQ
Quite possibly the best dynamic headphone setup I've owned or listened to. Vintage R-2R DAC's like the SFD-2 MKII SE+ playing good ol' Red Book 16-bit 44.1kHz or OOYH 48 kHz beats most so-called "wonder" DAC's capable of DSD.
When my BHSE arrives in a year or two, another Codia shelf will go on top of the rack.
I know it might be overkill, but I bought these desktop racks on a whim. Codia Stage 1000 and TAKT Den-LD, all made in South Korea.
http://imgur.com/1NWPssQ
Quite possibly the best dynamic headphone setup I've owned or listened to. Vintage R-2R DAC's like the SFD-2 MKII SE+ playing good ol' Red Book 16-bit 44.1kHz or OOYH 48 kHz beats most so-called "wonder" DAC's capable of DSD.
When my BHSE arrives in a year or two, another Codia shelf will go on top of the rack.
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