Mark Maloof
New Head-Fier
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While I don't have a pair of AKG K1000s yet, I listened to a pair at the the Canjam at Rocky Mountain Audio Fest, and was quite impressed. Thinking about getting a pair. For those who have experience with them, while I know single ended 300B style tube amps are preferred by some with this "ear speaker", how would a real nice 100 watt per channel push/pull EL34 tube amp fair? The reason I ask is that I have a Music Reference RM9 (classic tube amp) that rolls off the highs on my electrostatic panels (they go below 2 ohms in the treble), so of course I have not used it their in a while. I was going to sell it on Audiogon (a shame, I had great times with the amp in the past, but love my Innersound Eros 3 speakers more, their electrostatic panel is NOT tube friendly). Now since I experienced those K1000s, I'm thinking of getting a pair. And I thought "instead of putting this 60 lb amp on Audiogon and then having to ship the HEAVY thing unless I find a NYC customer, I could use is as a over the top headphone amp for K1000s". I certainly would not run out of headroom!