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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #540 on: September 05, 2014, 06:52:34 PM »
The HD600/650 made me fall out of the "ortho itch" camp. Put a lot of things in perspective for me. Made me question most of my past purchasing decisions, especially the PM-2. Granted, I'm also a desktop setup sort of guy, so I get no real benefit out of the PM-2's benefits of being easy to drive and consistent from about any source.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #541 on: September 05, 2014, 07:21:51 PM »
Quote from: purr1n on September 05, 2014, 06:28:10 PM
The PM-2 state is certainly narrow. One way to look at the PM-2's stage is that it's realistic or equivalent to a 2 channel speaker setup. Another way to look at it is that it's headphones, and why not go for wider, more open, and spacious?
I would have to say that the LCD-2 does give us that better sense of space - even though the stage not that much wider than PM-2. The LCD-2 is darker sounding though - and that is either a plus or minis depending upon your tastes. But I do believe that the LCD2 will scale a little bit more.
I have a PM-2 loaner from Oppo. I'll ask them I can put this on the Changstar loaner list and put your name on the list if you are interested. Anaxilus currently has them.
Anyways PM2 or LCD2 would be good non-finicky candidates to satisfy your ortho itch.
 

Yes, I would appreciate it if you could put me on the list (if Oppo permits it). And if I buy it before then I will take my name off and, of course, post impressions.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #542 on: September 09, 2014, 08:15:52 PM »
Colgin - we got the OK from Oppo to get the loaner. Anaxilus currently has it, unless he handed it over to ultrabike. I'll check in with them to see who has it.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #543 on: September 09, 2014, 09:30:04 PM »
Quote from: purr1n on September 09, 2014, 08:15:52 PM
Colgin - we got the OK from Oppo to get the loaner. Anaxilus currently has it, unless he handed it over to ultrabike. I'll check in with them to see who has it.

Cool. Just let me know who I should PM my info to for whenever it becomes available. Thanks again.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #544 on: September 11, 2014, 02:39:52 PM »
Hi, I'd like to ask ya'll on which portable amp that is suitable for IEM has good dynamics and excel at female vocal. I'm not yet planning on using it for headphones (yet), and prefer it to be a pure amp rather than the DAC/Amp. Source would be AK120, and mainly use for pairing with multi BA, Radius DDM2 (r2), and Piano Forte 9. I'm also intrigued on going balanced for multi BA IEM.

Thanks!
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #545 on: September 11, 2014, 03:19:54 PM »
Can't go wrong with the Leckerton UHA-6s mkii with the ADA4627-1B opamp. Nearly everyone who owns a UERM here also own a uha-6s. That applies to me too. The dac section isn't that good through usb, but it's slightly better with coax. The amp section is the real star!

You may want to have the gain lowered if you mainly use it for IEMs because the stock gain is kind of high for sensitive IEMs.

Alternatively, Nick from Leckerton is supposedly working on an amp-only unit.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #546 on: September 11, 2014, 03:31:01 PM »
Sure Gunner. Problem would be that I'm far away from where Nick is, so there's that.

Btw, anyone have any experience of RX-mk3? Heard it's rather dynamic sounding.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #547 on: September 11, 2014, 09:24:32 PM »
You can just send the amp to him if you buy it used, or have him adjust it before he sends it out.
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #548 on: September 17, 2014, 06:12:52 PM »
Hi guys, firstly I want to say I just love it here at Changstar and even though I dont really write here, I read everything you post. Past few months here really helped me find right direction in audio for me, wich would never happen i I stayed on Head-fi.

So, I enjoy my JH-3A combo, but I still want some full size headphones+rig. For me it will be definitely HD800, listened to it dozens times at my friends and had it for few weeks at home. Just best headphone. And I like it even in its stock form.

More problematic is rig, i dont have too much funds, so I was thinking about combination of Wyrd + Modi + Valhalla 2. This combination will be around 650$ with shipping.

Do you think this combination is enough for HD800? Is there something around this price point taht will suit them better?

Thanks :)
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Re: The All Purpose Advice Thread
« Reply #549 on: September 18, 2014, 04:17:05 AM »
There's some discussion in the Torpedo thread about how it matches with the HD800: http://www.changstar.com/index.php/topic,1756.msg47671/topicseen.html
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