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  • Muad'Dib
    Super MURCer
    • Nov 1999
    • 1058

    #1

    headphone amps?

    Anyone have any experience with either the Creek OBH IIse or the Grado RA-1? I've decided that headphones are the way to go in thin walled university appartments (at least until my main speakers arrive from Los Angeles which doesn't seem like it will be happening soon). I've already picked up a pair of Senn HD600's and am wondering how these cans pair up with the Creek and the Grado.

    I've read mixed reviews about both.
    "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
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  • GuchiGuh
    Comic Relief
    • Jun 2002
    • 1656

    #2
    Get the sensheiser onces....nice bass and nuggly fitting

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    • Wombat
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 2000
      • 9498

      #3
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      • K6-III
        Super MURCer
        • Dec 2000
        • 2253

        #4
        You don't want to get the Grado, as it won't be powerful enough to drive the HD600's properly (much better for Grado headphones).

        You may also want to look into the Corda and the Porta Corda....
        Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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        • luni
          MURCer
          • Aug 2002
          • 110

          #5


          OMG! Who the hell would pay 3.5K $ for a headphone amp?!

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          • Jammrock
            The Berserker
            • Aug 1999
            • 8661

            #6
            Originally posted by luni




            OMG! Who the hell would pay 3.5K $ for a headphone amp?!
            Someone with a LOT of disposable income?

            I was going to grab a cheapy headphone amp for my Sen HD-570's, but decided to upgrade my computer before I got hitched instead, so I can't really help from experience. Though I hear the Headroom amps are really good.

            Check this package deal out



            Jammrock
            “Inside every sane person there’s a madman struggling to get out”
            –The Light Fantastic, Terry Pratchett

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            • Wombat
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 2000
              • 9498

              #7
              Someone that understands that $5,000 in headphone equipment will have better quality reproduction than $50,000 in speakers.
              Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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              • Muad'Dib
                Super MURCer
                • Nov 1999
                • 1058

                #8
                Thanks fellas.

                I understand that Wombat.

                Already have the HD600's fellas, so not interested in packages with them Jammy.

                Corda and Porta Corda. Trying to find that, but havin trouble.
                "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: His eyes are closed"
                --- Albert Einstein


                "Drag racing is for people that don't know how to brake and downshift at the same time."

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