kwkarth
Electronics guys... we have our plusses and minuses. With advent of digital everything, we're being phased out
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I have the Grado SR-200s which have the HP-1000 drivers in them. They've never sounded so good as they do through the MP-5.
The MP-5 is not a perfect amp, nor is it a pure tube amp. It is a hybrid design using dual triodes for 1st stage amplification and drivers for the Mosfet outputs. It's rated at about 13 watts into 8 ohms per channel. The stock unit uses a 150 ohm resistor in series with the headphone jack. I'm driving the AKG K-1000s with the speaker outputs of the amp. They sound terrific too!
Substituting better tubes for the stock ones also improves the sound further.
The MP-5 is not a perfect amp, nor is it a pure tube amp. It is a hybrid design using dual triodes for 1st stage amplification and drivers for the Mosfet outputs. It's rated at about 13 watts into 8 ohms per channel. The stock unit uses a 150 ohm resistor in series with the headphone jack. I'm driving the AKG K-1000s with the speaker outputs of the amp. They sound terrific too!
Substituting better tubes for the stock ones also improves the sound further.