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Need Help on HeadPhone AMP

OK, tired of bickering with the wife about playing the rig too loud. bla bla

My rig is as follows:
Channel Island mono block class d (d200)200 watts
Acoustic Research LS-8 pre-amp
Rotel cd player (used as transport only)
PS Audio digital III DAC
Acoustic Zen Adagio speakers
Creek OBH-11 headphone amp
Grado SR225 Cans
Soundstring interconnects
Kimber Silver Streak interconnects

At this point the Creek and the Grado are just not cutting it for me. so...... your assistance please

I would like to replace the grado and creek and keep it under 2500. Suggestions?

Sennheiser Cans? Better Grados? I'm not sure of the amp at all....... THANKS so much in advance
mlapenta
karelfd
476 posts
 
Stax SRS-4040II Signature system (consists of SR-404 cans + SRM-006tII tube amp), not sure about its price today, but it was below US$ 2k when I bought mine in 2007.

Look up what the much bemourned John Potis wrote about this on 6moons, I couldn't agree more!
tom_hankins
928 posts
 
www.wooaudio.com
www.eddiecurrent.com
www.raysamuelsaudio.com
www.headphone.com
www.ttvj.com
www.headamp.com
All these can be researched on either www.head-case.org or www.head-fi.org
buconero117
2,311 posts
 
Take a look at the Cayin unit. Great sound, great value, high resale value.
dfhaleycko
178 posts
 
Another very good sounding headphone amp is the Mapletree Audio Designs, of which there are several variants. They are an especially synergistic match with the Grado RS-1's, but sound good with various Sennheisers and the AKG 701's in my experience.

Lloyd Peppard is coming out with a special edition (using tube rectification and EL-84 tubes, I believe), which is being issued this spring.

Again, you can get a variety of user experiences concerning this amp/phones at head-fi.org. But the amp/Grado combination is a screaming bargain and should not break $2000 combined.

Hope this helps!
tjnindc
91 posts
 
I love my Headroom Desktop headphone amd & DAC with the AKG 701s. About as close to bliss as it comes in my book.
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