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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    I am planning to keep Susvara for lighter tracks like jazz and classical, then acquiring something with more slam thereafter :) Very much agreed. A very troublesome process that saw me upgrade my amp and cable and interconnects and even consider dabbling in EQ to fix it. Will explore Yggdrasil...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    I apologize but I should have explained that I do not know how to respond your advice regarding EQ, as I am not a big fan of EQ and would rather use system synergy or swap headphone outright than alter the default tuning of a pair of cans. I am getting 4V through my Bifrost 2's balanced XLR...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    So do you keep it just for certain genres and switch to Audeze / Focal / Abyss when anything with bass is being played? I have found Susvara's tuning is great for instrumental / classical / jazz, but makes almost everything else flat, soft, emotionless, and un-engaging. Agreed, it's not...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    I see that you own the Susvara and a myriad of Audezes, the lack of bass on the Susvaras must be that much more prominent when compared to something like LCD4.
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    Some other questions for Ferrum owners here: 1) Do you guys ever adjust the voltage of a device, such as using 30V for the OOR instead of 24V? I have tried increasing the voltage but of course everything sounded exactly the same. It didn't make the Susvara sound any less soft. I think even if...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    I wanted to 'fix' the bass so I changed to the Black Dragon first, there was a slight hint of warmth and didn't really give it a whole lot of bass. Thus I tried the Silver Dragon next, it made everything sound more open and transparent, I thought it was a bit better than the Black Dragon, so I'm...
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    The long and winding road... to endgame: MSB Premier, Riviera AIC10, HF Susvara.

    Are you having to crank the volume knob to 3'o clock to get sufficient volume or else everything sounds so laid-back, backward, hard-to-hear, un-engaging and lifeless?
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    The long and winding road... to endgame: MSB Premier, Riviera AIC10, HF Susvara.

    Output Power Balanced: 1.600 mW into 300 Ω, 8 W into 60 Ω Susvara has 60 Ω, I am running everything balanced, so I think I'm putting 8W into it and thus not limiting it in terms of current. I highly suspect it's just the tuning of the headphones.
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    Because there's no dealer for Abyss in my area so it'll be a potential sight-unseen sound-unheard $5995 mistake. I'd rather get the Meze Elite to get some bass, much cheaper, comfortable and I've demoed it 3 times now with positive feedback. The thing is aside from spending another obscene...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    Ok thanks, that means it's the headphones themselves that's the issue, I can rest in this journey to 'fix' the Susvara finally. It'll never be what I expected it to be even if my chain is correct. Cool ... Ok, I'll give it a couple of months time and then sell it for bass heavy headphones and...
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    The long and winding road... to endgame: MSB Premier, Riviera AIC10, HF Susvara.

    Having only invested in this combo for barely a week, I do want to make sure I'm doing everything correctly before ruling out technical mistakes and concluding it's the headphones that I don't like, and the rest of the chain is not to blame. The Susvara does sound good with jazz and classical...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    So basically on a technical level, I am driving the Susvara sufficiently already, it's just how it's tuned that is resulting in not much bass? Do you only listen to bass-light genres with the Susvara then complement them with another bassier headphone then? There's no way to achieve bass or...
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    The long and winding road... to endgame: MSB Premier, Riviera AIC10, HF Susvara.

    Perhaps I should be more clear, if you look at the left side of the HYPSOS display, both the 'Nominal Output and 'Output Voltage' has been set to 24.0V (I set the HYPSOS configuration to Ferrum OOR). What I was referring to was that the 'Output Power' was 15.1W and the 'Output Current' was 0.6A...
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    Ferrum OOR - headphone amplifier with a soul ?

    Got the Ferrum OOR + HYPSOS stack and the chain is Macbook Pro > AudioQuest Cinnamon USB Cable > Bifrost 2 Unison USB > XLR Interconnect > Ferrum OOR (powered by HYPSOS) > XLR out to Susvara Although the sound is very transparent and clean, bass is still not that strong, and even on high gain...
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    The long and winding road... to endgame: MSB Premier, Riviera AIC10, HF Susvara.

    Got the Ferrum OOR + HYPSOS stack and the chain is Macbook Pro > AudioQuest Cinnamon USB Cable > Bifrost 2 Unison USB > XLR Interconnect > Ferrum OOR (powered by HYPSOS) > XLR out to Susvara Although the sound is very transparent and clean, bass is still not that strong, and even on high gain...
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