Pretty much, I dont need a bass cannon, I just need some info down there. TBH the Arya do that balance well while maintaining stage size and separation. What My ultimate ideal would be would just be that arya sound with the way way way higher technical ability of shang.If you add low freq this changes tone and staging
but I guess you are looking for a happy medium
Fwiw, I've gotten the amount that I want out of Shang with a fairly bad transformer called the ifi Iesl. It just completely collapsed stage and toon a detail hit so bad that Shang was inline with sus unfortunately. But I at least know that bass qty I want is doable which is kinda the only reason I'm still entertaining the cansOk don’t think im
Nuts and have tried this.
sub under desk or chair you feel the bass as well as hear it not a joke
Lastly I have some bone conductor headsets you could try this as an add on I did but had good and bad not nirvana
The sub works well but needs to be adjusted for how loud you listen
the feel part does work.
stats to me don’t do Heavy like stat speakers don’t
Oh yea it measures but somehow this don’t translate to feeling it
Just saying lol.
When you're running lower feedback designs as is the case with all tube amplifiers, the parts quality plays a pretty big role in the sound that you get. Things like grounding make a difference; stray capacitance, wire quality and so on. IOW this circuit would work fine if built up properly. I suspect that the amps you heard were not. But who knows? What was the quality that you didn't like about them?Honestly, I am just generally kind put off by the fact that its a KG design. I think ive owned 4 or 5 of his DIY amps at this point and another 3 of his designs from headamp and I've not been particularly fond of any of them, so I dont realy trust his designs to go for a sound I like. I tried doing some more research on the ones you linked but I cant realy find any impressions to go off of to make me comfortable blind buying.
Pre isnt an idea ive played with at all (most use to integrateds just due to be a HP user), but dac is in the plans. While ive not heard much in the price range im targeting upgrading to, I've at least got some decent experience with stuff in the 5-10k used range. I do expect that the dac upgrade (currently targeting a trinuity) will get me some more incisiveness as well as some more steadfast sub-bass extension, but im not currently guessing it will be enough.Ok let me say this cans get you there but you need to feel happy perhaps the amp / trans is to be left alone
How about the dac and preamp
It sounds like you’ve gone down many rabbit holes
so lol what’s next
TBH I dont mind buying stuff I cant demo. Totaly within my comfort zone so long as I can find some impressions I feel are reliable enough to chance it. With the OTL KG designs I cant really find any comments on how they sound at all to get to that comfort level."...to me make me comfortable blind buying."
When yyou are pushing the edge. By definition you are out of the comfort zone.
oh, yah. OFC component quality matters quite a bit. While some of his stuff ive heard I am certain had lower quality components, I stuff like the BHSE from headamp or the custom built top spec CFA3 I have in house right now I trust to at least have not used trash.When you're running lower feedback designs as is the case with all tube amplifiers, the parts quality plays a pretty big role in the sound that you get. Things like grounding make a difference; stray capacitance, wire quality and so on. IOW this circuit would work fine if built up properly. I suspect that the amps you heard were not. But who knows? What was the quality that you didn't like about them?
If you're running an OTL headphone amp designed for ESLs, wouldn't you use a direct-coupled output? That way the DC at the output could bias the diaphragm of the 'phones.If otl then I would think the blocking caps do too in total sound scape to a given load ?
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