Pharmaboy
Headphoneus Supremus
Unfortunately due to some unforeseen circumstances I had to miss out on CanJam. But it's exciting to see those waiting for their sets were able to listen and loved it.
On a side note, I originally planned to use my time at CanJam to listen to various tube amps. Anyone recommend something to go along with my GSX mk2? I know known favorites are the DNA and Glenn amps, but as far as I know those have very long turn over rates (as expected for how good I hear they are). Majority here seem to be tube owners so I figured I'd ask whats been good to their Verite cans.
I repeatedly heard various headphones through the Cayin HA-300. I'm up in the air about the chrome look of it (chrome wrapping outside of volume pot, for example). But the sound is most impressive:
https://7review.com/cayin-ha-300-review/
Also got seriously wowed by the Auris Nirvana. Not in love w/white leather wrapping the main amp/preamp unit & transformers...but the sound was amazing. No idea what it costs...didn't have the nerve to even ask:
http://aurisaudio.rs/en/products/headphone-amplifiers/nirvana
Tube amps were actually part of what IMO is a real trend at CanJam:
- More and more vendors are using endgame tube amps--sometimes in conjunction w/endgame SS, something not
- The amps themselves seem to get larger and larger. In some cases they're actually bigger than trad 2-channel components, way too big for all but the biggest desktop
- Cost goes sky-high