Love the HP8 with the Atrium and Verite. I prefer the High z setting, although Medium also sounds great.That's a good question. I don't think they've provided that spec in the manual or on the website. Personally, I've got my Atrium set to Medium and my Grado on Low. This amp is pretty powerful, someone told me it's great for the Caldera too. It's definitely the best amp I've tried with my Atrium so far!
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ZMF Atrium - new open-back co-flagship
- Thread starter DeweyCH
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How does the Aegis compare to the Decware OTL? Im debating between the two (ahead of the Aegis release) and wondering how similar the sound signatures are. Would primarily use with AO, VC, and potentially Tungsten (if I go with an OTC with enough power)
You couldn't have picked better two amps for your shortlist. I own both and they are both great. And they are quite different, including in their intended use case.
The most important distinction, right off the bat, is your intended use case, which can immediately impact your choice:
- The Decware has a preamp - in you want this functionality (to drive a speaker amp, or to add a tube stage before another SS headphone amp)
- The Aegis is transformer coupled - in case you want the ability to drive low impedance and/or hard to drive planar headphones.
The Decware OTL has superb synergy with ZMF's dynamic heapdhones, as well as other high-impedance dynamic headphones (I've beed usiung it with the AO, AC, VO, ADX5000, HD800S). It offers an addictively lush, sweet and pristine sound signature, the best of any OTL I've tried to date (more in my Decware OTL review).
Great choices! I'd recommend determining which use case is more important to you, and you will have a wonderufl experience either way as long as it's used for what you need it for.
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