justinsweber Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 This is the SET DHT dream brought to phones... The mid range bloom is incredible. I love knowing the tubes are older than my father and finally being put to service... Mold on boxes and all. Having heard many a SS headphone amp I can do a brief comparison. SS is quitter though this amp is very very quite. The 1626 Tube Head phone DHT, Zero feedback has all the midrange and timbral I could want... Drive is very good with my 40ohm 100db efficient phones. I now know for sure that I like my SET amps with a hair of feedback... I may add -3db of feedback later but for now Im just enjoying the music... Back to the carpet starring at the ceiling... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bracurrie Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 What about the rest of the range? Low end and high end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinsweber Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 Top to bottom pretty darn impressive. I generally perfer to the SE-84... The SE84 is an all around solution, which does many many things really well... This was per pose built to see what the hype was about. Im using nice but supper cheap Monoprice phones... They have great reviews on AK and were $30 or so... what better way to test :-). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest David H Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 You could try some upgraded Bose, seems to be all the Hype on the forums these days. LOL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest David H Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 (edited) Amp looks great, I will have to come by for a listen. I'll bring my Bose. Dave Edited March 20, 2014 by GotHover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beeker Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 I have very critical listening actual studio cans that are stone cold or a bit harsh when listening depending on quality of a recording and source and music enjoyment phones that are a bit heavy on tone yet provide what i enjoy when listening to headphones that obviously vary from user to user and so many others my wife and daughter uses. I replace my critical listening and music enjoyment phones yearly through each manufacturer Likewise studio hp amp and one i prefer for enjoyment. Feedback seems to provide a bit more when critically listening to recordings or particular formats basically allowing particular flaws to become known for editing. By your description of midrange i would say its possible you have a high end valve hp processing amp good for studio. Actuating high and lows in recordings in critical listening in my opinion and many others is not good. Everybody has their own opinion especially on hp forums you know how crazy they get. Very interesting your vast range of knowledge being put to work in many audio directions. Best of luck 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cut-Throat Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 This is the SET DHT dream brought to phones... The mid range bloom is incredible. I love knowing the tubes are older than my father and finally being put to service... Mold on boxes and all. Having heard many a SS headphone amp I can do a brief comparison. SS is quitter though this amp is very very quite. The 1626 Tube Head phone DHT, Zero feedback has all the midrange and timbral I could want... Drive is very good with my 40ohm 100db efficient phones. I now know for sure that I like my SET amps with a hair of feedback... I may add -3db of feedback later but for now Im just enjoying the music... Back to the carpet starring at the ceiling... :-) Try a 45 Tube for even more 'Bloom' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CECAA850 Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Seems that you're staying busy Justin. Looks nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joessportster Posted March 20, 2014 Share Posted March 20, 2014 Awesome work my friend ! That looks like a piece of art work setting on your carpet. Keep us updated on your impressions.I found Headphones did not impress me at all when I first put them on I hated the fact that everything was inside my head. Everything just seemed lifeless and uninspiring, Once paired with the proper amp headphones opened up a whole other dimension to my listening experience, I found them UBER revealing adding layers to music I had not heard before. I have found in open air setups the system would scale nicely with better amplification, Headphones seem to amplify that trait even more. (IE... a better amp they get much better sounding Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justinsweber Posted March 20, 2014 Author Share Posted March 20, 2014 It’s still a work in progress... as most things in life are... right now its a standard darling circuit with 4 sec. power supply with 47uf per. The DC ripple is around 20mv which is 4x times what I am used to. My production amps generally roll off the line with between 5mv and 12mv which means I can hear them... :-). I won’t be selling until I get the ripple crazy low. As I was reminded by Shannon Sparks the ratios used for the 32ohm and 600ohm taps offer much less attenuation and thus Ill need to beef up the filtering... Arg. With he noise floor lower I think it was be a wonderful amp... goes low and has very good HF ext all with the same mid range id expect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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