[Anaxilus]

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What is the best amplifier to go with the SR-009's?

 
DIY T2

 

[vvs_75]

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What is the best amplifier to go with the SR-009's?

The one you can afford.

 

[musicman59]

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Which one? Some are okay and some are... not.

Dark Star with HE-6 sound great and i have listen to the A10 as headphone amp and also pre-amp and I personally like it even there is people here that think otherwise... to each his own...

 

[SoupRKnowva]

Dark Star with HE-6 sound great and i have listen to the A10 as headphone amp and also pre-amp and I personally like it even there is people here that think otherwise... to each his own...

And there's others of us that thought the HE-6 sounded pretty terrible with the Dark Star. Not a good paring at all. Though I guess the amp could go well with other phones. The HE-6s on the other hand sounded phenomenal out of an AMB B24 speaker amp. Filled them right out

 

[Magick Man]

I listened to the Darkstar at the last meet and it sounded okay (with HE-6 and HE-5LE), and Ray was cool to talk with, but the price is kinda crazy for what you get, IMO. It was $700 more than I payed for my SLI-80 demo, and there really is no comparison, the Cary's in a completely different league.

 

[Desiretree]

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DIY T2

 
Is it easy to build?

 

[sillysally]

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Dark Star with HE-6 sound great and i have listen to the A10 as headphone amp and also pre-amp and I personally like it even there is people here that think otherwise... to each his own...

 
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And there's others of us that thought the HE-6 sounded pretty terrible with the Dark Star. Not a good paring at all. Though I guess the amp could go well with other phones. The HE-6s on the other hand sounded phenomenal out of an AMB B24 speaker amp. Filled them right out

 
Because of the HE-6 and all the different amp opinions, mine included. That's what lead me to going the Stax route. 

 

[Anaxilus]

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Is it easy to build?

 
Absolutely not, probably some people's worst nightmare.  $4-5K in parts only.....

 

[livewire]

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Is it easy to build?

 
Prolly the most difficult DIY stat build that is out there.

 

[musicman59]

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And there's others of us that thought the HE-6 sounded pretty terrible with the Dark Star. Not a good paring at all. Though I guess the amp could go well with other phones. The HE-6s on the other hand sounded phenomenal out of an AMB B24 speaker amp. Filled them right out

 
 I also power the HE-6 with a Threshold T2 preamp ($5,200 at its time) and a Threshold T50 (500 watts/ch in 8 ohms Class A) and IMO it is very difficult to determine the difference between them and the DS.
Both Sound excellent to my ears but SillySally is right not at the level of the SR-009/SRM727II combo.
 
I know there are some anit-RSA people around and that is OK, everybody is entitled to his/her opinion and choices. In my case I don't have anything to say about Ray or his products but good things. I have never had any issues with his products and he has always treated me very good and vey friendly.

 

[spritzer]

I've never seen a positive remark about the A-10 from anybody which has any experience with electrostatics.  Hard clipping into louder transients and the "sound" changing from song to song due to the non linear nature of the circuit and all the distortion that brings us are things to look for.  Still some people might like this sort of thing and for them I have good news!!  The preamp is even worse... 

 
Now for something less depressing, the best amp I've found for the SR-009 is the 40 year old Stax SRA-12S.  These run hot so don't even try to plug one into a wall before replacing all the caps but we might do a trial run on some boards of a modern take on this design and see how we like it. 
 
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Predator + Etymotics ER4 sound good as my travel kit, though I'm thinking about a pico-slim as a smaller, pocket friendlier option.

 
Was that the one that had 20%+ THD into an IEM load?  Could be one of the smaller ones but that's just a distortion generator, not an amp. 

 

[sridhar3]

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Could be one of the smaller ones but that's just a distortion generator, not an amp. 

 
It's a "tone control".  Some people are into that stuff, though.

 

[rudi0504]

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What is the best amplifier to go with the SR-009's?

 You can try like my set up for Sr 009 :
 
Source : CD Player Stello CDA 500 as CD Transport
 
DAC : Eximus DP 1
 
Headamp : Electrostatic Sax Srm  727 mk2
 
Preamp : Eximus Dp 1
 
The Connection as follow : CDP CD 500 as Transport with coax cable to Eximus Dp 1 as DAC 
                                        from Eximus DP 1 analog output  XLR ( as pre amp ) to Stax Srm 727 mk2 Line Input XLR ( as Power Amp ) to SR 009
                                        with this set up you must turn the Volume Srm 727 mk 2 to MAX and the volume regulation from Eximus Dp 1
 
This set up also can use with Stax Sr 007 mk2 , with this set up i can get very good Sound Quality
 
Even Better than my dynamic headphone HD 800 and Ortho Set Up LCD 3

 

[Elysian]

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Absolutely not, probably some people's worst nightmare.  $4-5K in parts only.....

 
Sourcing and testing all the parts seems absolutely ridiculous.  The pics of people buying hundreds of parts only to find out they're all counterfeits would be rage inducing.

 

[ujamerstand]

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Sourcing and testing all the parts seems absolutely ridiculous.  The pics of people buying hundreds of parts only to find out they're all counterfeits would be rage inducing.

 
I have purchased over a hundred c3675s, and I can confirm your sentiment.