Redshifted
New Head-Fier
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I am hearing a lot of suggestions for Garage 1217 amps, the Polaris or Ember both seem great.
If you don't want to disappear down the tube rolling rabbit hole (I have spent hours reading about tubes, tracking down different tubes at a decent (??) price. I have several times the cost of the amp in tubes. Most just sitting in their boxes) Get the Polaris.
Picking up a pair of these this week. My first pair of AKG headphones...looking forward to testing them out. You guys have any amp suggestions? I might try and push for a Lyr 2 if it is in my budget but I would like to hear cheaper suggestions that would perform well with them. Thanks!
I get that!. Though I must say that the K7xx does sound very, very good with the Polaris being driven by the UD301... my newest acquisition... and one I am liking. If it is still out there with the $100 rebate it is a steal. $300 for a piece of equipment originally selling for $700. Lots of versatility and sounds good too!
If one likes the tube sound though, there is no substitute for putting a tube in the signal chain! But the Polaris does give a nice taste of that sound.
OTH, I am impatient and often constrained on time to listen. The whole concept of letting a tube warm up for half an hour or more for it to sound good .. makes using them a bit impractical for me lots of the time.
Does anyone have any comments on how the K7XX compares to the Oppo PM-3?
Have them both on hand right now and will do a little comparison in the next few days.
Recently purchased the k553 and really am having a hard time holding back purchasing these. I have the money, but do I really need these right now? Ugh!
I got a question, if anybody would have tested this...What makes Kxx warmer or even darker? Is it the ear pads? Cause I had them plugged into Fiio E17K alpen 2 which is a slightly warm amp and made my Bright Q701's stone cold. now when it comes to kxx it seems to me it doesn't matter if I plug them in my E1 or E17k Sounds exactly the same where as q701 sound bright on E1, sound cold on E17k when you adjust some setting on the E17K they sound warm...
But I do know why Q701's had bumps on the head band even trough you get slightly irritated after some odd hours they don't mess your hair up as much as a solid band.
Also bass Kxx Sometimes it seems a bit much and sometimes it seems to be lacking, but then again it might just be what I want to hear VS what I should hear...
Kxx seems to take the best from closed back headphones and somehow implementing that into open headphones. :O
Does anyone have any comments on how the K7XX compares to the Oppo PM-3?