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Unless you can personally audition them, I'd hold off until some more critical reviews show up for either. Though I suppose in the short term assuming they are readily available, you wouldn't lose much speculating and selling if it wasn't for you.

The modern equivalent is the MySphere, same designer, logical evolution, if you don't need sub bass the 3.1 version is my #1 headphone, Susvara would be #2. But they need very different amplifiers.

I personally have never had a problem with it. But a solution is going to depend a bit on how bad it is for you. I use a big all copper cable for the Susvara, because I like how that works with the rest of my chain, that can help shift the emphasis of the sound a bit. But if it's bad enough to...

I'd suspect this. The Susvara hides a litany of amp noise problems, for specifically this reason, where as the Utopia exposes any little noise issue an amp has.

I'd be willing to bet the center tap on the output is connected to the ground on the input side. They don't technically need to do this since they are dealing with low voltages anyway, and nothing is likely to float at 100's of volts, but it's pretty standard practice.

While I agree with some of his observations, I don't think I'd go that far there is a lot to like about the 1266, and if Electronic Music were your music of choice it would be hard to match.

I'm on record not liking the TC, so take my view with a big pinch of salt, but I do own one because I've never gotten around to listing it for sale. The TC presents with what I consider a lot of false texture and detail. To me regardless of the source, it sounds like the treble is compressed (in...

WA33 works well with the TI-1A/B, on either load, they do sound different, and I can't remember which one I preferred, (I think 32 Ohms)

I think Elrog also has a 242, which I'd be tempted to try just based on how much I like their 845's in the Viva.

The problem is many headphone social media reviewers just haven't heard enough comparable pieces. It would have been extremely unusual in the Magazine days for a reviewer to be listening to something better than their experience. Not knocking the "reviewers", but it does lead to a revolving door...

People seem to plug anything that works with an adapter in, it's not like it needs a ton of voltage or current for that matter, so pretty much any dual diode can probably be made to work, if you can run it's heater off 5V. FWIW the 596 was pretty good for the price point, Woo sells them with...

Sorry meant rectifier. You need to make sure that selector is set correctly for the tube in question. Depending on the age of the pacific, there are two different sets of labels on that selector (I believe the function is the same), one version just has less tubes marked on it.

Most likely a tube issue, especially if you had noise in the EC. Configuration is correct, I have 2 242’s in the back sockets, a pair of C3G’s in an adapter in the rear pre socket and a 6N6P in the front pre socket. You can verify by swapping the tubes, and seeing if the noise moves. Generally...

I had both side by side for a week or so (borrowed an AIC 10). The one I borrowed was supposed to have one of the more linear tubes in it. It took me a few days to realize there was an impedance mismatch, and it wasn't playing well with the Pacific, so impressions are using the TotalDAC. I'm...