DarkWolf
500+ Head-Fier
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I'm pretty set on getting a pair of 590s once I have some car repairs and denal work out of the way. Regretfuly, I'm already starting to wonder about amps. What will work the best with the 590s? I'm very interested in cross-feed, since I do notice a bit of fatigue from phones compaired to speakers. Given that, I'm pretty interested in meier-audio's head amp. My only real justification for making this post now is that if I did decide that I would get one of these, that I could undoubtedly get some discount from Jan if I ordered the phones and amp together. That's good since I'd want it assembled and that costs $345, which is pretty steep for me. Steep enough that I wonder what else I could get, not just for >$100 less, but also for $100 or so more. I know this is saying a lot, and I'm regretting the words comming out of my fingers already, but I've got the itch.
The Wheatfield Audio HA-1 from headroom is quite interesting too. It claims to be a solid state and tube hybrid offering some of the best of both worlds. If that's true, I'm interested, and I've read almost entirely good things about it. I think only one negative opinnion out of 20 or so... But $530? ouch. Maybe it would be worth it to have the speed and punch of solid state and the smoothness, opness and slight cross talk of tubes... But a $530 amp + $175 headphones + a $120 cable = about 1/5 of a cheap used Porsche. I don't know if I can live with that. This would be a really good time for someone to say something that will let me rest easy...