Tekton Double Impacts

I had a great customer service experience with LTA also. Awesome products, but we chose the Lyngdorf over all other gear we tested, including the LTA products. But dealing with them was an absolute pleasure. I actually felt guilty sending the hardware back. Just the opposite of my experience with Odyssey. If it weren't for the exceptional capabilities of the Lyngdorf, I would still have the LTA on the front end. I may actually buy LTA in the future just for variety sake. The ZOTL transformer-less design is really in a class of it's own for tube amps.

Hello Goners! I have been here for a bit, but never posted. I’d like to thank all of you for the last 4 days tossing an turning trying to figure out wtf I should use to drive my "High End furniture" with. It’s has been an, interesting trip, I finally gave up on page 50 something. A special thanks to all those that put in their hart and soul here. Chaz and Grinny? I have been looking at all the TJ dictum’s :), but could never get my mind around 1 or 20W when I was driving my DI with SS many times that and still not getting what "I" needed from them in terms balls to bone, forget the meat. lol :)

As the FNG, I have, very much appreciated all the ears here, but at as a lay person, at times I felt like I was watching a tennis match of the ultimate have to have... wait, this is better, or is it "Butter" answer.

In the end, or beginning, I’m going to try the Lyngdorf 2170 full boat. I have many tube amps and headphones HD 800, Utopia, HD 650 (my fav) ICAN KTE, WA7, LD stuff, but was driving my DI with a Cambridge CXA 80 mixing in the aforementioned as preamps here and there. The bottom line is that the CXA, is a bright amp, "to my ears" this via Tonnoy’s, Fluance and my upgraded DI’s.

I finally got to the point where it wasn’t about $$ or what was the best, I just wanted something great and something simple. "Clear the mechanism!" (Anyone?)

Anyway, the Lyngdorf 2170 is on the way and I shall go from there. No extra cables, no tube rolling, no 1940’s round special edition coffee pots, just music.

I think, at some point, we lose sight of what this is all about in the quest for something you can never attain.... perfection.

Glad to meet ya’ll

JT

Hi JT welcome aboard! You made made some great equipment choices. Congrats. If you want to come close to musical perfection may I suggest you hire some musicians from your local symphony or college music department and have them play for your next party. No amplification just raw professional class music in your home. It’s not as expensive as you might think and VERY rewarding. They are normally great people who love listening to your system. It makes for a great evening!

@sbayne 
I could not agree more... every piece of audio gear has some form of coloration/corruption. ;)

@stfoth Yup. :)