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I notice this AMP for sale Anyone have any clues?

What about an almarro 2a3. Although, that being said, I'm not exactly sure how the headphone circuit is wired out of the amp.

Ive only heard the bottom of the line denons, but they seems pretty average to me... I wonder how they upper models compare.

Spritzer, is the 727 converted to 240v operation as well?

Thanks for the reply Kevin, I thought I remember reading towards the beginning of the thread that you were offering part kits of some sort, it may have just been the sockets. Oh, and lets not forget the personally laser engraved titanium knobs. As I am horribly lazy, could you point me to the BOM so I can figure out how hard it will be to find all the bits and pieces needed to populate the board?

Are you still offering chassis and parts kits?

Hmmm, I just had a listen to my hd800s just then, I still think the O2 has much more width then the hd800. Mind you this is only to the left and right of the drivers themselves, not vertical.

I'd like to be in too please Board and kit

I have listened to binaural recordings, and yes, they do part to overcome depth problems, but, problem is, there isnt many of them. And definately none for any of the music I listen to. It would be great if it were though!

Well I have the resistors necessary to change the gain of the amp, but not the hex key to take the panel off, haha. Can't win them all.

Just in time for my O2 Thanks for your fanastic input into the community Kevin.

I have set the volume pot of my stax amp on full am using my modified WA2 as a preamp. With the gain of the preamp it means I have a bit more range of the volume pot (on the WA2). Its sounding quite good right now. I should also add that I am very impressed with how well engineered the driver housing are, add to that the lovely leather pads and headband and the hd800's feel kind of cheap....

A lot of people say that hd800 has a much more expansive sound stage than the O2s. I have found this to simply NOT be true. I can however understand why people have come to this conclusion, and that is simply because the hd800 sound more distant. The hole in the midrange will only emphasize this attribute, making vocals sound slightly further away. As the O2 doesnt seem to have this problem, things are layered much more realistically, accounting for the awesome pin point imaging, and I believe it does go much wider. I cant wait to see how they respond to improved amplification. Some saving graces for the hd800 though, I do think it has slightly better detail retreival and things seem to have a bit more "texture" although some might call it "coarseness." Remember though that the hd800 is running off much "better" amplification than the O2.

So I just took delivery of my O2 mk1 on Friday. Wow, what a great headphone, there is still the inherent headphone limitation of poor depth, but the imaging and soundstaging is superb. Much better than my hd800 and, I have to say, much wider. Also, it doesnt have the big hole in the mid range that is present on the hd800. The only problem I have with them at the moment is that my ampflication is limiting the stax. I have a highamp design stax amp, and while it was great for other stax headphones, there just isnt enough gain or power for the O2's, they sound horribly cramp and congested on anything but the highest volume setting. I will try up the gain on the amp and hopefully that will set me straight, otherwise, looks like I'll be trying to build one of KG's designs, or saving pennies for a BHSE from headamp. Hens

I havent heard the lcd2s but I agree about the hd800s, I've tried everything to get them to sound the way I want them too, yet in the end, they are always slightly off in some way, cant win them all.