craiglester
Headphoneus Supremus
OK, finally, I'm seriously thinking about getting a tube amp. I've had a couple of S/S amps, but never felt they really drove my K340s or K240m with any real authority
I've had a home made AD823/Buf634 amp - not sure what design it is. Works good on everything under 300 ohms. I also have a Headfive - again, great on the lower impedance headphones. I sold a Gilmore Lite with DPS - probably the best amp so far, but it still didn't really cut it with the K340, and Man that thing ran HOT.
So basically I'm thinking a Tube amp is the way to go, but with a limited budget, I'm wondering where's a good place to start?
I've looked at the Little Dot II, Darkvoice Figaro, Darkvoice 336/i/se and if i were to really stretch things, i might be able to get a Little dot IV or a Darkvoice 332..
That's about it choicewise as far as I can see.. Am I missing something else that might be out there?
I suppose it would help to list my headphones..
in no particular order:
AKG K340, AKG K240M, Koss A/250, MS1 (Woodied) and AL IM716
As you can see there's some very different amping needs there.. the source is either going to be a PC with a Number Cruncher, or a Squeezebox, or possibly an old Nakamichi CDP. Oh and one more thing.. all the music I have ripped is Wav gained/MP3 gained to 89 DB (ish), so is a little quieter than from the CD (so i'm not too worried about the whole bit perfect thing, I can't tell the difference to be honest)
So my question is.. what amp would you recommend, and why?
Thanks in advance.
I've had a home made AD823/Buf634 amp - not sure what design it is. Works good on everything under 300 ohms. I also have a Headfive - again, great on the lower impedance headphones. I sold a Gilmore Lite with DPS - probably the best amp so far, but it still didn't really cut it with the K340, and Man that thing ran HOT.
So basically I'm thinking a Tube amp is the way to go, but with a limited budget, I'm wondering where's a good place to start?
I've looked at the Little Dot II, Darkvoice Figaro, Darkvoice 336/i/se and if i were to really stretch things, i might be able to get a Little dot IV or a Darkvoice 332..
That's about it choicewise as far as I can see.. Am I missing something else that might be out there?
I suppose it would help to list my headphones..
in no particular order:
AKG K340, AKG K240M, Koss A/250, MS1 (Woodied) and AL IM716
As you can see there's some very different amping needs there.. the source is either going to be a PC with a Number Cruncher, or a Squeezebox, or possibly an old Nakamichi CDP. Oh and one more thing.. all the music I have ripped is Wav gained/MP3 gained to 89 DB (ish), so is a little quieter than from the CD (so i'm not too worried about the whole bit perfect thing, I can't tell the difference to be honest)
So my question is.. what amp would you recommend, and why?
Thanks in advance.