Well, regarding your previous post... Three stars doesn't exactly say "not shit" in the minds of many people. I think your O2 review was a 5 star one... But not everyone has the same priorities, and points of reference.At the time I heard the Vali, I could only evaluate it with humble cans like my HD558, an SR60 and my KSC-75s, vs a Focusrite 2i2. The Vali didn't transform my HD558s into an Orpheus rig, or into airline free-buds. But they did sound different relative to what I was used to. The bass felt more detailed and with more extension. It also seemed to bring a slight amount of aggressiveness to the cans. Much more engaging. I liked the HD558 + Vali synergy. And IMO it also measured well.I dunno about the O2. I will try it eventually. It's obviously not everyone's cup tea though. Haven't heard the Headroom Micro Dac & Amp either, but I'm really curious about that one actually.
Stop buying 5-10 pieces of mid low to lower-fi gear. Sell all but one or two pieces and start getting real reference gear so at least you can have an authoritative frame of reference. It's also a waste of time, money and effort if you think about it. Obviously your O2 and other gear didn't make a persuasive argument to be the be all end all of amps, so maybe time to raise the bar.
Quote from: Anaxilus on December 08, 2013, 05:40:31 AMStop buying 5-10 pieces of mid low to lower-fi gear. Sell all but one or two pieces and start getting real reference gear so at least you can have an authoritative frame of reference. It's also a waste of time, money and effort if you think about it. Obviously your O2 and other gear didn't make a persuasive argument to be the be all end all of amps, so maybe time to raise the bar.Yep. Plus it'll help clean up all the mind-numbing redundancy of his wall of text posts hopefully. Think of it as positive criticism, t-dock. -Daniel
Far better than "this is the real deal" and "this is the schiit" one sentence Vali impressions. Those are more a waste of time IMO.The best AMP reviews/impressions are always fairly long and very in-depth
Fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. Holy Schiit fantastic. This is tubes done right. We are talking about expansive soundstage, tube clarity, tube microdynamics, tube microdetail, tube dynamics and slam. (Yes, all the things which folks who haven't heard good tube amps don't think tubes sound like.) The first time I heard this, I almost pee'd in my pants. An amp this cheap shouldn't sound this good.
