My advice is to stay away from transports unless you are willing to go to extreme lengths in finding a good one or tweaking one which often equates to money and time. Anaxilus did a lot of legwork and I got lucky with a cheap Data III.

ALO RXmk3 is awesome.

Thanks Marv. You are probably right about this being a difficult undertaking to say the least. On a side note regarding the leaderboard, will the HE-1000 be considered for addition to the board under the no-limit planar classification?

What's the difference between B and B+?

About 4-5%.

Iiiiinteresting. Thanks guys.

Don't know if I missed it... About the geek out 450 recommendation, does the 1000 sound as good or better?

It has more drive for headphones like the HD800. It sounds warmer due to added bass distortion with more power. 450 has better separation and sounds cleaner and more balanced. The Geeks prefer kernel streaming on Jriver IME which is unusual. I've heard some people with foobar describe overly warm and compressed sound signatures.