[whill]

Hi Mr. YC1204

May i kindly ask why did you return the Auralic?

Thank you.


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[yc1204]

Hi Mr. YC1204

May i kindly ask why did you return the Auralic?

Thank you.


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Simply because it sounds better with my Ether to my ear. No point to keep both amps so i just return it.

 

[ken6217]

Hi Mr. YC1204

May i kindly ask why did you return the Auralic?

Thank you.

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As an aside, before I got my V281, I had messaged a few different people that had owned both amps and they all sold the Taurus.

 

[whill]

Simply because it sounds better with my Ether to my ear. No point to keep both amps so i just return it.

 
Thank you Mr. yc1204
 

 
As an aside, before I got my V281, I had messaged a few different people that had owned both amps and they all sold the Taurus.

 
Thank you Mr. ken6217, i am still confused to whether choose Violectric or the Bryston BHA1. hehehe.
 
I will do some more research because in the place where i am at, they don't sell both that is why i cannot demo it.

 

[sandalaudio]

   
Thank you Mr. yc1204
 
Thank you Mr. ken6217, i am still confused to whether choose Violectric or the Bryston BHA1. hehehe.
 
I will do some more research because in the place where i am at, they don't sell both that is why i cannot demo it.

 
Just my 2 cents worth, I spent about a year looking around for a good solid amp (to replace my Grace Design m903), and had very serious listening sessions with Taurus II, BHA-1 and V281, fortunately all sitting side by side in a same shop.
 
I also listened to around a dozen other analogue headphone amps along the way, but I eventually ended up buying the V281 (with volume option 1 and no DAC), because I ultimately preferred it over the Taurus and Bryston.

 

[Fegefeuer]

The V280 has been announced
 
http://www.head-fi.org/t/803271/violectric-hpa-v280-slim-and-powerful-balanced-hpa
 
a little yet still powerful brother of the V281. 

 

[yc1204]

Looking forward to try the V281 with LCD4 soon couple weeks later, will share my impression by then.

 

[Mortalcoil]

We cant wait

 

[Ty89m]

So, worth moving to V281 over my new V200 that arrived last week? Wondering if I'd be better off upgrading Bifrost 4490 to the V850 instead of spending so much on V281, my HD800S have the balanced cable, but is the 281 worth the significant invesment if I just purchased the V200 (which I like quite a lot)?

 

[yc1204]

So, worth moving to V281 over my new V200 that arrived last week? Wondering if I'd be better off upgrading Bifrost 4490 to the V850 instead of spending so much on V281, my HD800S have the balanced cable, but is the 281 worth the significant invesment if I just purchased the V200 (which I like quite a lot)?

If you run balance headphones, the V281 is a huge step improve from the V200.

 

[Ty89m]

If you run balance headphones, the V281 is a huge step improve from the V200.

Damn, so sticking with the Bifrost and swapping to 281 would be a better choice vs sticking with V200 and uprgrading dac to V850 etc?

 

[yc1204]

Damn, so sticking with the Bifrost and swapping to 281 would be a better choice vs sticking with V200 and uprgrading dac to V850 etc?

With your situation I would say upgrade the amp 1st for balance output. The price range of your DAC selections won't make huge diference until you chose a better amp to drive your headphones. 

 

[socks mk2]

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[sandalaudio]

Damn, so sticking with the Bifrost and swapping to 281 would be a better choice vs sticking with V200 and uprgrading dac to V850 etc?

 
I think there is a big improvement going for a balanced amp V281 compared to upgrading the DAC.
 
DAC will change the flavour of the sound which you may or may not enjoy, whereas going from V200 to V281 will give an objective power increase which a lot of headphones can benefit from.
 
Also, there is no need to buy a balanced DAC and interconnect, because the XLR balanced input on V281 turns single-ended internally anyway. It's not a fully balanced operation end-to-end, so it doesn't matter too much about whether the DAC you are using is balanced or single ended, unless you are running a 10m cable or something.
 
It's important to make the distinction clear about balanced connection for line level signals (e.g. from a DAC) vs. balanced driving of headphones.
The reason why V281 is praised is because of the good sounding balanced headphone amplifier circuit, which both the balanced and single ended line input can benefit from.
 

 

[ken6217]

So, worth moving to V281 over my new V200 that arrived last week? Wondering if I'd be better off upgrading Bifrost 4490 to the V850 instead of spending so much on V281, my HD800S have the balanced cable, but is the 281 worth the significant invesment if I just purchased the V200 (which I like quite a lot)?

Using the V281 with balanced headphones = two V220's.