If it's just to "hold you over"... The Cayin iha-6 is a good choice. Especially if you can pick one up second hand. I too started out with the Iha-6. But it wasn't long (few months) before I was demoing amps that could really deliver the performance the TCs require.Cayin it is, then!
Thanks for all the help, guys. It's been hard finding amp recommendations within this budget but I'm fairly positive that the Cayin will be a good choice.
With the help and encouragement of other users... I landed on the SimAudio Moon 600i speaker amp. I wish you could have seen the look on the salesman's face when he heard that I wanted to plug my headphones into a speaker amp via the speaker taps... It was priceless... He too was blown away by what he heard from the Abyss/Moon combo. There was simply no going back to the Iha-6.
Don't get me wrong... I'm not knocking the Cayin amplifier... It is what it is... A budget amp. But eventually you are going to need a special kind of power. Like myself, many find the fix in a high quality speaker amp.
Congrats on your new path to audio bliss... There's no going back now.
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