I used to have a Heed Canamp until I was offered a straight swap for a DarkVoice 337SE valve headphone amp.
The former was good with my HD580s but the replacement is just amazing. It is a big heavy beast mind.
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I used to have a Heed Canamp until I was offered a straight swap for a DarkVoice 337SE valve headphone amp.
The former was good with my HD580s but the replacement is just amazing. It is a big heavy beast mind.
I have a Lehmann HPA I use with my sennys and sony phones, i need a HPA because my Moon amp has no headphone output, so without one I'm knackered.
My smsl is superb headphone amp and dac. Used for several hrs a day with mr oppos
I have two sets of Stax headphones and energisers. They sound great, but aren't that comfortable to wear for long stretches.
Also have Senn HD600 and have to say didn't get on with the Capella either - only had it for a short time though.
In response to your original point, I haven't found a hard and fast rule so far with the 600:
Not at all bad with a self-build CMOY HPA - definitely very good VFM in terms of sound quality.
Not impressed with the direct output from a Quad 405-2 via an (old) QED MA30 switching unit.
Worked very well with a Musical Fidelity V-Can 2 HPA - very well indeed.
Not impressed with the built in outputs of a Teac integrated or a Q-DAC.
Brilliant with my current integrated (a Quad Vena)
Edited to add - best so far without a doubt is an RPi with IQAudio DAC+ output.
I remember when a decent integrated included a phono stage and headphone amp. Now we pay separately for them because they're not included anynore. The world's gone mad I tell ya!
I use a Creek OBH11-SE headphone amp, it feeds my HD600 and HD650 very well, really nice, rich sound. The only slight quibble if I had to find one is the power supply is quite a lump but who cares when it's tucked out of the way.