I could maybe try to trade the Slants for the HE-6... But again, I would need to buy a speaker amp as well (btw, we are talking about budget amps... not Ragnarok or other uber expensive choices... therefore not sure whether it's worth it to try the HE-6 with my limited funds).

Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't bring that "HE-6 needs a speaker amp" crap here...

Quote from: Tor4 on October 06, 2014, 05:26:56 PM

I could maybe try to trade the Slants for the HE-6... But again, I would need to buy a speaker amp as well (btw, we are talking about budget amps... not Ragnarok or other uber expensive choices... therefore not sure whether it's worth it to try the HE-6 with my limited funds).

Please, for the love of all that is holy, don't bring that "HE-6 needs a speaker amp" crap here...

Sorry, just following the 'consensus'... I asked about budget amps for HE-6 and the original response was: Ragnarok or megabuck hefty Audio-GDs ,-)

Fortunately, CEE TEE came with something that is closer to what I define as a 'budget price range'.

I am really not comfortable with how much Audio GD gets mentioned around this forum.  Tempted to make a macro that replaces the usage of "Audio GD" with "M7 (pretty good when it works right)".

Quote from: Anaxilus on October 07, 2014, 05:48:55 PM

I am really not comfortable with how much Audio GD gets mentioned around this forum.  Tempted to make a macro that replaces the usage of "Audio GD" with "M7 (pretty good when it works right)".

The Master-9 is a good headphone amp. The NFB-7 is a good Sabre DAC.

The NFB-7 I heard was still quite too Sabre-ish for me among other things.  Haven't heard the Master 9 but I see mixed comments comparing to the GSX mk2 so not sure what to make of that.  No doubt you can't argue the price/BOM ratio.  I think Kingwa can make good stuff, just nothing I've heard is anything I'd call reference the way some folk seem to when they name drop them. 

Anybody tried the iFi stuff? The iMicro DSD seems to be all the rage these days...