ClintonL
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Does the vali have any white noise/random cracking noise i stopped using my bottlehead crack because i hated the random noises.
Does the vali have any white noise/random cracking noise i stopped using my bottlehead crack because i hated the random noises.
Does the vali have any white noise/random cracking noise i stopped using my bottlehead crack because i hated the random noises.
Does the vali have it? If not i'll get the magni 2 uber.
You really need to up your amp budget to $1k or go with the hd600 which is allot like the 800 but more forgiving. The hd600 is less resolving but will still scale up to $1k amps. The hd600, 650 and 800 are really known for scaling with totl amps.
Does the vali have any white noise/random cracking noise i stopped using my bottlehead crack because i hated the random noises.
It was this weird noise it wasn't crackling or anything. When i played around switching in new tubes when rolling it wouldn't make a difference.
Anyway i hear with a tube amp you can get noise like that and i'm pretty OCD where if i notice something that's all i'll notice. And i already have the hd800. Budget is kind of tight at the moment and i don't really listen to my headphones that much since i've recentely got a good set of studio monitors. I'm just using the internal amp of my Cambridge dac magic plus at the moment which is pretty lacking as long as i can get an improvement on that i'm happy.
Just wondering would an hd800 being driven poorly by a magni 2 uber sound better than TH900's being driven by the magni 2?
The only headphone amp with which I've heard my HD800 at their full potential is the Zana Deux. The overall sound is detailed, smooth, soundstage is nice and accurate with a nice dept, bass is very tight with no sloppiness, the highs are smooth without any harshness and no roll off; overall they never get fatiguing either. The other very good amps I've owned were the HeadAmp GS-X1, the Taurus MKII, the BHA-1, the GS-1, the vintage Fisher 500C & the Beyer A1.
None of those amps brought out the HD800's overall sound excellence like the ZDS. I can say the same for the other HPs I own: the HD600, HD650 & T1 Gen.1.
I don't see myself looking/ wishing for another amp. I fell in love w/ the HD800 all over again.
If you had to choose a SS amp for HD800 instead, which of those would be your pick?
Are you asking me to recommend one in particular because you're thinking of buying or are you asking me just in order to know which I personally preferred ?