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Originally Posted by KZEE /img/forum/go_quote.gif
5998's have been steadily going up in price, so buying more than one isn't the worse thing you could do.
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Yeah, that's sorta what I was thinking...I'll keep the 7236, the pair of 5998's, and sell the others. They were not expensive at all, and I took them mostly out of curiousity anyway, just to compare.
Spareribs - The reason I was asking him is we worked together, and took different approaches, but he had vastly more experience in audiophilia than I did. When I was still muddling along with 128k mp3s on my Sony MDR-V700's, he had been into tubes and stuff since he was a young'n. I remember when I wanted some new "earbuds", and he showed me Ety's...I almost crapped at the idea of spending $300 (list at the time) on the ER-4, and forget even needing an amp...I thought that was stupid. Here I am, years later, thousands of dollars sunk into head-fi, and still not satisfied, lol. Everything in my sig I pretty much owe to glitch's guidance, although a lot of it was my own route...for instance, the HD650, OMZ, MKV (now sold), my cabling (all of it), the DIP...that was all me. Glitch is never satisfied either, and is a lot more willing to buy something, fiddle with it, compare, sell on, and try something new (hence in the past couple of years 3-4 amps, 5-6 phones, 3-4 DACs, all sorts of cables, etc), and I've benefitted from his trial and error (and got to try out a lot of stuff myself in the process). He sold me his D2000's (since sold on as well), the Woo 3+, and been my tube pimp (he's got some crazy tubemafia connections I am not privy to). All in all, great guidance, but I asked because he tried my OMZ and liked it, tried my 650s and didn't at first, but went with them in the end once he found the right amp, and had both the LDIVse and this Woo, sold both, and got another MKIV...it never ends. Plus, he can't stand me having something better, so he's constantly one-upping me, lol. He almost went fully balanced from source to ears...thank god he didn't, or it would have been too much for both of us...our wives would KILL us...