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any stereo amp with good thd+n/sinad, a gain of 30dB or more (or add preamp if needed), and about 10Watts or more into 4Ohms is all you will ever need really.

a SRD7 replaced my blue Hawaii. If you like to listen to headphones with eq or/and on the louder side, all dedicated stax amps no matter how big will start to distort when pushed, transformers are the only solution.

you can basically make your own Hifiman HE-R10 by buying these 5 dollar wooden cups and attaching it to a 150ish dollar Hifiman Deva (it was original released with the exact same headband as well btw). and if you have enough shills on headfi, you too can sell it on for >5000 dollars.

I know a case where someone lived next to a radio station, amateur radio in that case, and had noises coming out of he’s speakers whenever the station operator was sending. Ferrite beads on cables can sometimes help in such a case. Don’t know about USB cables though.

But, but headphone reviews like this: https://www.whathifi.com/reviews/yamaha-yh-5000se-headphones and the ones from headfi told us this is a 5 star flagship headphone.

While everyone is uniting against this scummy behavior, I bet you head-fi won’t choose to disassociate with this sponsor. They wont lift a finger for even their most popular and respectable members if it conflicts with their tune payers. #fake friends.

Head-fi’s thread shills already lined up to hype this one to the moon and back.

sure argument. its very irritating when they don't even understand/speak the language.

1 million subscribers disagree with you.

so far I see only Lundahls being used for these DIY builds. Would output Transformers meant for EL34 Amps (hooked in reverse), also be good candidates for such a build?

I have never seen a balanced headphone amp for dynamic headphones ever measured in this way btw. And even STAX themselves don’t do this.

It’s crazy that there are no different units to differentiate the different measurements. How can anyone compare any measurements when they have the same units but mean different things. How was the measurements on the topping done?

Thanks, after asking chatgtp as well, I fully get it now. But it seems A bit slimy to use peak to peak instead of the standard RMS because peak to peak can mean two different measurements. So their 1600V peak to peak is still 400Vrms.

sorry, still doesn’t make sense.