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But... but... the stick is so much more fun. Ohh well... the HD600 is a solid choice for anyone but they do need a good amp to sound really good which could always be an upgrade path later on.

Needs moar Jena...

So is there magic also involved with the headphones? I thought said magic only applied to the amps and naturally the cables... Never been a fan of the 650 but for the price it isn't a bad dynamic. Still I'd take a 600 over it for even less money...

At least you aren't doing meth... which would probably be cheaper and less harmful then all this high voltage...

It's just 10am but I've already ripped open my ESX amp as the left channel was distorting. Found nothing wrong with it so it is probably the crappy octal tube sockets I had to use due to the huge holes Mikhail had cut in the chassis or that is just needed some tlc... Holy crap this amp sounds good though. Not overly warm, dull, flat and lifeless like the WES but neutral and with impressive control over the SR-007 without a CCS in sight.

...or Direct Current, which ever works for you...

I'd love to see their reasoning for this. Probably sounds moar bettah or something stupid like that.

I'd blame the meter here. No auto-ranging usually means cheap meter and they are often worse than useless... Faulty wiring could be something as simple as the phase being reversed somewhere...

What multimeter and how did you measure it, AC range with a probe on each of the AC poles? 70VAC down from 117V is very strange indeed and most gear wouldn't even function

Happy Birthday Tom.

I used the SR-007 with a 313 for a long time (until I got my old BH) and it is a good amp on a budget, certainly not worse then the Exstata.

Rudistor is the worst value out there and most of the stuff makes Singlepower gear look well designed and made to last. He always uses the cheapest crap he can find, all the circuit boards are basic tin plated copper (i.e. like ARC for some reason still uses ) naturally with no ground plane. Cheap Hifi-2000 chassis and a Alps RK27 in a 4k$ amp...

I quite liked it as well.

Yup and add to that what ever SS amp needs... output capacitors... I for one never liked that amp and would take a Dynalo over it...

Let's just say there is a reason for the "isolated amplifier modules" and no reason at all for the massive heatsinks...

Fair enough but that is clearly not the case here.

Plenty of Class A bias, yes. I personally don't care who designs something but the stuff KG and Ti give away is just better then the rest because they care enough and have the skill to make it as good as is possible. You could add Pass to this list but none of his stock designs are for headphones... Seeing people recommend that steaming pile of crap which is the Rudistor RB-010 as the bezt evah just makes me furious every time....

Better yet, use something like this...

Dynahi, dynafet or B22. About as good as it gets for those inferior dynamics...

KG tests his amps like that and I believe HFN tests all amps under review flat out. Didn't Marc use this amp flat out so why test it any other way?

I'd say the pins are less of an issue compared to the WPI socket simply not being the correct size for the Stax plugs. That's why they are such a pain to use compared to the teflon sockets or the SATO Parts Stax sockets.

Crap tolerances maybe. The oldest Stax connectors weren't so great either but the newer Sato parts are better.

Yup WPI is the company that makes them but these are the exact same molds as have been sold by Amphenol since at least the 1960's. My Heathkit tube checker has a socket like this and so did the old Koss ESP7,9 and 10

They have switched to WPI on everything now which makes no sense to me and yeah, that's the transformer box. I compared it briefly at CJ against my Lundahl box and even the the much lower ratio of the Lundahl's they were much smoother to my ears and the bass more controlled even off the WA5.

Can't be outdone by Kevin so 100 for me as well.