Thanks czarivey,
Appreciate the recommendation, but the K240 is not closed back, so there will be some audible leakage that will probably bother my wife.
Plus, and I’m not being snobbish here, but I’m leaning towards the 1K + price arena. I want to come as close as possible w/ closed cans to the sound of my Stax set-up.
The headphone amp is not an issue. I used to drive my cans directly by my Decware SE84CSEX to very good effect. Then I started modding the hell out of it, ending up using Electraprint interstage transformers and ditching the coupling cap. Because I had a lot or iron in too small a space, I had some hum. So I took it apart to rebuild it on a larger chassis to alleviate the hum problem, but the Stax setup dropped in my lap and I’ve had no desire to rebuild it. I also have a Weiss DAC202 which has a headphone amp in it that does a great job w/ my AKG and Sennheiser cans.
But my wife tells me she misses the old days when we sat in front of the system spinning vinyl. So I’ve been told to have a new amp built by summertime. The amp will drive any cans except stats of course.
So when you guys give recommendations don’t worry about the amp. Not an issue.
As always, thanks in advance.
Cheers, Crazy Bill
Appreciate the recommendation, but the K240 is not closed back, so there will be some audible leakage that will probably bother my wife.
Plus, and I’m not being snobbish here, but I’m leaning towards the 1K + price arena. I want to come as close as possible w/ closed cans to the sound of my Stax set-up.
The headphone amp is not an issue. I used to drive my cans directly by my Decware SE84CSEX to very good effect. Then I started modding the hell out of it, ending up using Electraprint interstage transformers and ditching the coupling cap. Because I had a lot or iron in too small a space, I had some hum. So I took it apart to rebuild it on a larger chassis to alleviate the hum problem, but the Stax setup dropped in my lap and I’ve had no desire to rebuild it. I also have a Weiss DAC202 which has a headphone amp in it that does a great job w/ my AKG and Sennheiser cans.
But my wife tells me she misses the old days when we sat in front of the system spinning vinyl. So I’ve been told to have a new amp built by summertime. The amp will drive any cans except stats of course.
So when you guys give recommendations don’t worry about the amp. Not an issue.
As always, thanks in advance.
Cheers, Crazy Bill