insanitybeard
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My head feels like a frisby, like a football.....
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Post by insanitybeard on Jun 4, 2007 21:42:50 GMT
Hi there, I was directed here by Mr. Slee when I enquired about buying one of his solo headphone amps. I recently purchased a set of grado gs1000s' and want a good headphone amp to power them with, thing is I'm wondering how they sound with a solo amp. I also wonder how the earmax valve headphone amp sounds, as well as the U.S made eddie current zana deux. Do any of you guys have any experience with any of these amps and the grados? My old creek amp is holding the grados back now I feel! Any comments gratefully recieved!
Thanks,
Paul
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Post by PinkFloyd on Jun 4, 2007 22:54:03 GMT
Hi there, I was directed here by Mr. Slee when I enquired about buying one of his solo headphone amps. I recently purchased a set of grado gs1000s' and want a good headphone amp to power them with, thing is I'm wondering how they sound with a solo amp. I also wonder how the earmax valve headphone amp sounds, as well as the U.S made eddie current zana deux. Do any of you guys have any experience with any of these amps and the grados? My old creek amp is holding the grados back now I feel! Any comments gratefully recieved! Thanks, Paul Hi Paul, I can't stand Grado headphones, probably because they don't seem to gel with my collection of headphone amps, the only amp I really found made my SR-225 truly sing a lovely tune was the WNA MKlll (which I referred to in this thread rockgrotto.proboards39.com/index.cgi?board=b&action=display&thread=1169759985) I have no experience of the GS1000 but if they have the same house sound as the the rest of the Grado range then I think you may want to veer toward a valve amplifier that has specifically been designed to drive 32ohm headphones. Mrarroyo (Miguel) is the man to ask here as he has a lot of experience with a lot of Grado 'phones through a lot of different amps. The Solo is bloody amazing with the Sennheiser headphones (300 ohm) and I mean BLOODY amazing but it really didn't get my toes tapping with the Grados, very middle of the road (as were the Grados through the rest of my amps) I dunno.... possible I just don't like the Grado "house sound"..... I have them on my head for 5 minutes and just want to rip them off! Certainly nothing special (in my opinion) and one of the most closed in / brittle listens you could subject your ears to.... of course, all ears are different and YMMV but I, personally wouldn't be looking for an amp to go with the Grados I'd be looking for a decent set of headphones to go with my amp Anyways....... I'm obviously not the right man to answer your question considering I detest Creek and like Grado even less ;D
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insanitybeard
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Post by insanitybeard on Jun 10, 2007 22:55:42 GMT
Thanks for your comments chap, I do have a set of HD600's as well, they were my headphones before the Grados, I liked them but couldn't help thinking the bass especially was lacking detail particularly when there was a lot going on. I just bought an Earmax silver edition triode headphone amp and although it is supposedly a high gain model for "hard to drive" headphones I find with some of my admittedly bass heavy electronic music the bass starts to distort before I reach a good listening volume- and I'm not deaf, nor am I trying to blow my brains out! The HD600's with the same amp and music reach far higher volumes without any problems. The Earmax amp sounds great with more accoustic music but maybe it's still not powerful enough to drive the low impedance Grados fully with some of my electronic tunes! Maybe I'm expecting too much of this amp, maybe it wasn't designed to power out modern electronic stuff but I want to listen to everything from heavy rock to electronic to country and accoustic stuff! Maybe I can't get one amp to cover all that music and power it out well but I dunno what else to try! Paul P.S, upon reading some of the posts/other topics within this forum I now realise (I think) that with my low impedance Grados I don't infact need a "high gain" amp after all, forgive me for being uneducated, maybe I need to study some theory......
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