Stock Take! How Much Kit have you got

[Arkless Electronics]

I'll guess this will go against the grain but an observation I've made with headphone amps for my 300R and very easy to drive Sennheiser HD580's is that the amp matters very little. Just a couple of Volts at a few mA is enough to drive 'em and I can tell very little difference between various SS sound sources driving them from CD player, to DAC, to headphone socket on PC or laptop or even my own design no compromise class A headphone amp.... yes the latter is the best but to be honest the difference between any of these sources is Nth degree... I wonder if this is maybe why some "designed to be coloured" headphone amps, mainly valve, have become popular?

Often there are resistors in line at the output of headphone amps or the sockets on an integrated amp, 22-68R or so being common, which means they have bugger all "grip", "current", "control" over the 'phones by design even! My class A no compromise unit eschews these but with little difference to the sound...

[Joe]

4 lots of headphones and headphone amps! That's an addiction mate.

I know! The only two sets I use regularly are the two sets of Stax earphones and associated energisers. In addition I've got an ancient duo of Musical Fidelity X-Cans and Sony-something-or-other headphones which are past their best, and a Chord Hugo Dac/headphone amp, plus HiFi Man something or other headphones, which I use far too rarely to warrant keeping.

[Hammer]

tt=2
tonearms=2
cdp=2
cart=5
integrated amps=1
pre amps=1
power amps=2
speakers=3
tuners=2
tape=1

[Pharos]

Because of my political activities in my career I am probably in a much compromised position financially than many here, and the result of this, with my desire for and love of quality in everything, means that my approach is to be minimalist in number of possessions.

I would rather have one bar of 85% dark chocolate than 10 Cadburys dairy milk bars.

So now that I have 2 pairs of speakers, I will get rid of one, and also sell the other two items I have spare, a pre and a tuner.
I'm also considering upgrading my Gammas to Betas, and pulling in my belt to do it.

[struth]

Because of my political activities in my career I am probably in a much compromised position financially than many here, and the result of this, with my desire for and love of quality in everything, means that my approach is to be minimalist in number of possessions.

I would rather have one bar of 85% dark chocolate that 10 Cadburys dairy milk bars.

So now that I have 2 pairs of speakers, I will get rid of one, and also sell the other two items I have spare, a pre and a tuner.
I'm also considering upgrading my Gammas to Betas, and pulling in my belt to do it.

im poorer i would sell my extras but cant find buyers up here

[Pharos]

It is amazing what the human being can do when placed in extremis Grant, until '08 I was living on £59 a fortnight, whilst trying to maintain a house, do all the usual overheads, pursue Hi-Fi, and bodybuild, and it was hard.

But those adaptations I use now to maximise the use of my money, and relatively it feels like luxury now on a state pension.

[struth]

It is amazing what the human being can do when placed in extremis Grant, until '08 I was living on £59 a fortnight, whilst trying to maintain a house, do all the usual overheads, pursue Hi-Fi, and bodybuild, and it was hard.

But those adaptations I use now to maximise the use of my money, and relatively it feels like luxury now on a state pension.

Its why humans became successful.. adaptability.

[Yomanze]

I have massively cut down my clutter, but off the top of my head:

2x pairs of speakers, Royd RR3 and Royd Sorcerer SE
2x power amps, Exposure IV & LFD PA2M (SE)
2x preamps, Exposure III & LFD DLS
3x DACs, Audial Model S, Theta DS Pro Progeny & an old Beresford DAC
2x phono stages, Vista Audio Phono 1 mk2 & Hagerman Bugle2
2x turntables, Systemdek III in bits, and a Pioneer PL71

[Macca]

Get rid of a DAC then you have 2 of everything.

[Yomanze]

Get rid of a DAC then you have 2 of everything.