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In Reply to: RE: Headphones posted by Doc B. on October 14, 2009 at 07:58:15
What would be the ultimate headphone amp for the HD800s based on a BH platform?
I already have two Sex amps with MQ iron (Ni and M3), one at the office and one at home.
I have on order a pair of Tl-404s from Mike.
Maybe two sex amps shunt regulating. Maybe a 45 SR version of the Paramounts. How about a 71A?
Christmas is coming as are my ATR and tube repro so a set of new cans could be cool.
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The TL-404's are a good building block for building the finest possible headphone amp. I chose a different route so I could include balanced outputs, although with transformer coupled gear balanced output has proven not to be super critical.
The MQ upgraded SEX is pretty hard to beat, you really end up stepping up the costs significantly to get to the next level.
See link ....although I think the PGP 8.1 is not made any more.
Crazy, I came across this exact same post last night while searching for info on crossfeed circuits. I've always seen pictures of this amp, but only from the outside. I think this may be the amp that was at the Norcal headphone meet last month? Just a beautiful piece of equipment. I am far from a materialistic person, but pieces like this make me want to hoard equipment.
Thanks for the kind words. This one was brought back from the studio a few years ago and is now the control preamp in my system. I don't usually wax poetic about gear, but Shawn keeps talking about how this preamp seems to have some magic in terms of tone and resolution. I'm inclined to agree, as I haven't been able to make any other preamp that sounds as good. The one downside is that it has been modified to 600:600 ohm input transformers from the original 10k:600 ohms, because we found the 4:1 stepdown ratio to be too much of a hit for the output level of a lot of my sources. So it really needs studio type sources with 600 ohm outputs connected to it. My phono and tape preamps are now 600 ohms transformer balanced out, but I had to tack a 600 ohm CF buffer on our new tube SeDACtion prototype (4Kohms output impedance, like a Seduction or Eros) to get it to sound happy thru the big preamp.
Edits: 10/15/09
I wish my ears will still good enough to appreciate such a piece of equipment.
Triamp... Take a load off!
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