[MindBreak]

A little update on MJ3 powering Starry Night v1. My MJ3 has been on 24/7 for around 2 weeks now, and I have logged some more time towards breaking it in. With that said, Starry Night sounds better when powered by the MJ3 now. Is it as good as running them off of a speaker amp? No, but it is far better than when I first tried the pairing. Would I recommend getting a MJ3 if most of your headphones are similarly speced to Starry Night? Again no, but for any of SJY's offerings Moonlight and onward, I would give it a whole hearted recommendation. My Moonlight sounds better running it off of the MJ3 than any of the other amps I have tried (ranging from $200 to $1,500 price range). I have yet to own a tube amp, and I may change my opinion once I acquire a $2k+ tube amp that is capable of driving planars, but that is still 2 years from now.

Just for reference with the MJ3, the more hours logged on it the bass improves. I am still not to the 100 hour + mark that other owners have hit though, lol.

Anyway, Have a nice day, and Happy Listening!

 

[arlandkor]

Horizon has arrived
Where is Horizon's forum?
This is my first time writing on head-fi.org

The Horizon is lighter than the Zmf Atrium I have, but it's still heavy for me.

 

[MakeItWain]

Horizon has arrived
Where is Horizon's forum?
This is my first time writing on head-fi.org

The Horizon is lighter than the Zmf Atrium I have, but it's still heavy for me.

I think this has been the defacto SJY thread so it's probably fine to post it here vs separately making a thread?

They look awesome, though!

 

[arlandkor]

I think this has been the defacto SJY thread so it's probably fine to post it here vs separately making a thread?

They look awesome, though!

Nice to meet you. I am a non-English speaker and am not good at English. So I often use Google Translator.

Anyway, Horizon arrived quickly and I am listening to it today. Horizon is my second SJY Audio headphone. The first one was Umi.

Horizon clearly shows improvement over Umi. The exterior doesn't seem very cool by my standards

 

[MindBreak]

Horizon has arrived
Where is Horizon's forum?
This is my first time writing on head-fi.org

The Horizon is lighter than the Zmf Atrium I have, but it's still heavy for me.

Congrats on the new pair of headphones, and welcome to Head-fi. It could be worse looks wise considering this is the first pair of SJY headphones I purchased.

 

[MillionAntz]

Horizon has arrived
Where is Horizon's forum?
This is my first time writing on head-fi.org

The Horizon is lighter than the Zmf Atrium I have, but it's still heavy for me.

What are your impressions on Horizon's sound signature? How hard is it to drive? I have been looking into getting one but wasn't sure if my Aune S9C Pro would been enough juice.

 

[MindBreak]

What are your impressions on Horizon's sound signature? How hard is it to drive? I have been looking into getting one but wasn't sure if my Aune S9C Pro would been enough juice.

If you are running them through the balanced connection then it should be more than enough to power them. Horizon is way more efficient than his previous offerings.

 

[arlandkor]

What are your impressions on Horizon's sound signature? How hard is it to drive? I have been looking into getting one but wasn't sure if my Aune S9C Pro would been enough juice.

The bass is slightly boosted and the female vocals stand out. (It doesn't stand out as massively as Edition 8.) The sound stage felt wide enough to make me feel slightly dizzy. I felt it was wider than HIFIMAN ARYA V2.
I'm confused as to whether it's an illusion caused by reverberation or whether the sound stage is actually wide.
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I am using the HPA-A1000 mk2 as a headphone amplifier. When I set the volume knob to 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock with all hard gain turned on, the sound level became what I normally hear. This appears to be similar to Umi's driving difficulty. This is based on XLR connection. (For TH808, when using 6.35, the level is similar at 10-11 o'clock).
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I'm not sure if the translation was done correctly (using Google Translator)

 

[andrewchoppa]

The bass is slightly boosted and the female vocals stand out. (It doesn't stand out as massively as Edition 8.) The sound stage felt wide enough to make me feel slightly dizzy. I felt it was wider than HIFIMAN ARYA V2.
I'm confused as to whether it's an illusion caused by reverberation or whether the sound stage is actually wide.
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I am using the HPA-A1000 mk2 as a headphone amplifier. When I set the volume knob to 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock with all hard gain turned on, the sound level became what I normally hear. This appears to be similar to Umi's driving difficulty. This is based on XLR connection. (For TH808, when using 6.35, the level is similar at 10-11 o'clock).
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I'm not sure if the translation was done correctly (using Google Translator)

Translation perfect my friend!!

 

[MindBreak]

Playing around with my setup powering the Starry Night V1.
https://forum.hifiguides.com/t/everything-sjy-audio/36460/269

 

[psy472]

The bass is slightly boosted and the female vocals stand out. (It doesn't stand out as massively as Edition 8.) The sound stage felt wide enough to make me feel slightly dizzy. I felt it was wider than HIFIMAN ARYA V2.
I'm confused as to whether it's an illusion caused by reverberation or whether the sound stage is actually wide.
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I am using the HPA-A1000 mk2 as a headphone amplifier. When I set the volume knob to 1 o'clock to 2 o'clock with all hard gain turned on, the sound level became what I normally hear. This appears to be similar to Umi's driving difficulty. This is based on XLR connection. (For TH808, when using 6.35, the level is similar at 10-11 o'clock).
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I'm not sure if the translation was done correctly (using Google Translator)

Have you tried modding the Horizon by adding a washer under the 4 screws? This would increase the space and may improve the bass and reduce the pressure. Looking at the Horizon, it is likely suffering from the same problem as the Tungsten where the headphone is too compact.

Also much of the weight on SJY headphones are due to their very thick pads. I had to swap it out for the lighter ZMF pads. Too bad there isn’t a Horizon version out there,

 

[thnkdifferent]

Just wanna say I kept Starry Night V2 over: Beyer T5 gen 3, DCA Aeon 2 Noire, and Starry Night V1. Really loved the cups of the v1 I had though, so I swapped the V1 and V2 cups ahaha. Trying JM Audio's HE-R9 v8 soon... different tuning though. Getting the R9 and a Geshelli Archel 3 Pro which I hope can drive the V2 well. Officially they said it only supports as low as 16 ohm.

 

[grailnewt]

Just wanna say I kept Starry Night V2 over: Beyer T5 gen 3, DCA Aeon 2 Noire, and Starry Night V1. Really loved the cups of the v1 I had though, so I swapped the V1 and V2 cups ahaha. Trying JM Audio's HE-R9 v8 soon... different tuning though. Getting the R9 and a Geshelli Archel 3 Pro which I hope can drive the V2 well. Officially they said it only supports as low as 16 ohm.

I know this might sound controversial or contrived or be taken without seriousness but, the HifiMan ef499 drives it extremely well and it pairs superbly

 

[thnkdifferent]

I know this might sound controversial or contrived or be taken without seriousness but, the HifiMan ef499 drives it extremely well and it pairs superbly

Ooh the new hotness EF499. I like the look. I believe you. For the most part I think power requirements are blown out of proportion, but I never tried SNv2 or HE-6SEv2(when I had that) on a speaker amp.
I will say I'm ok with the v2 paired with Qudelix 5k balanced. And that's def weaker than EF499.

 

[MindBreak]

Ooh the new hotness EF499. I like the look. I believe you. For the most part I think power requirements are blown out of proportion, but I never tried SNv2 or HE-6SEv2(when I had that) on a speaker amp.
I will say I'm ok with the v2 paired with Qudelix 5k balanced. And that's def weaker than EF499.

Those of us who have tried SN v1 and/or v2 on speaker amps are not saying that you have to use a power amp to make them sound good. The point is more about trying to get the most out of the headphone (particularly in the lower frequencies, but not exclusively). I recently started spending more time listening to my SN v1 powered directly from my Mjolnir 3 which has 2 watts per channel (only tried this after many hours of burn in on the amp), and it sounds closer to what I heard on the speaker amps, yet it was more detailed. The Mjolnir 3 has an overbuilt power supply, and is pure class A (had to get a fan to cool it), so not exactly the typical 2 watt headphone amp. As I have stated in many threads, my ears are not your ears so use whatever sounds good to you.

The EF499 was designed with planar headphones in mind, so I would not be surprised if it drives SN v1 or v2 well. From discussions I have had the HE6se is harder to drive than the SN v1 and v2. If I remember correctly the EF499 can drive the HE6se fairly well (based on reviews and posts). Even so, your mileage may vary.

Happy Listening!