It really is amazing. It's one of the few amps under $2000 that I felt sounded within the same realm as ultra high-end amps like Formula S, woo audio wa23, or feliks Envy. 12au7 and 6v6gt are tubes with lots of options out there, allowing for a seriously versatile platform to tube roll to get...

This is my second time buying this amp this year. I owned it for 1 month previously before selling it to buy the cayin ha3a...but I really missed how great this amp sounded for $500 that I purchased another unit used and it is now being used as a backup-amp for shorter listening sessions...

I agree that pads have a huge effect. I went through the auteur stock pads and eikon lambskin pads before settling on my current pads being cowhide ori. It has the biggest chamber size out of all the zmf pads and with the added hardness of cowhide vs lambskin/suede, there was an increase in bass...

If you do end up getting the VC, you gotta pair them with tubes! (or you can mellow out the sound a bit more with titan mesh as I did) The AC I've read is less picky with amps and sounds generally more pleasing across the board vs the VC.

Is this at sogohm's? I was looking forward to trying out the atrium closed before ordering a stabilized version...too bad their sample unit is doa.

You probably won't even need to go past 10'oclock on the amp with those headphones.

The mt45 is a speaker amp first with the headphone out being secondary, so it wouldn't make sense for them to have comparable performance in the headphone side.

I would be hesitant. According to users on the ha3a thread (which has more power than the ha2a) receptions have been mixed with the ha3a and susvara pairings, while ha6a (more power than 3a) and susvara pairing have seen more positive reviews on the ha6a thread (I've scoured all pages on both...

The longer I've had this amp, the issue of how often I should be turning on/off the amp keeps irking me. I've tried reading about it...with differing recommendations. How often are you guys turning off the amp? For instance if I have to walk away from the amp for about 2 hours, is it better to...

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langrex has 1 in stock, you could try emailing them to see if they have more.

I'm honestly disappointed at the knob size decrease from the k9 to the k19...

Yeah I would say the ha3a pairs really nicely with audeze planars. I have a 2016 lcd2f and the ha3a livens up the sound quite a bit compared to my topping l70. Vocals sounded more natural, and while the lcd2 can sometimes sound dull on the l70, the ha3a gave a layer of warmth and smoothness to...

Based on my limited time with the gsx mini (I only got to listen to it for about 30 min) it was a very neutral amp with lots of energy. I generally prefer warmer sound signatures like r2r dacs and amps like violectric 220. The ha3a in comparison to the gsx mini gives a softer presentation of the...

Today I installed the titan acoustic mesh (solid for closed zmfs) on my vc, and the treble now sounds really smoothed out and very nice. I was always very sensitive to sibilance (the focal elegia and beyerdyanmic headphones hurt my ears after a couple minutes) and even paired with tubes on the...