Thank you for the quick response, my first planar.Any of the popular budget amplifiers will be perfectly adequate for the Sundaras and the vast majority of other headphones on the market.
For example:
- Schiit Magni Heresy
- Schiit Magni 3+
- Topping L30
- JDS Labs Atom
- Topping A30
My answer will actually always be the same: RME ADI-2 fs or Pro fs.What is good pairing for these Sundara
Thanks Grotto I was worried about price.My answer will actually always be the same: RME ADI-2 fs or Pro fs.
It was a lot of money for me too but I never regret the purchase.Thanks Grotto I was worried about price.
The ADI-2 is a lovely piece of engineering and few would regret the purchase but any of the amplifiers listed above are equally transparent and perform just as well (if not sometimes better) in a technical sense.Thanks Grotto I was worried about price.
Yes it's nice for sure but to deep for my pockets I'm going for that JDS lab's Atom stack.The ADI-2 is a lovely piece of engineering and few would regret the purchase but any of the amplifiers listed above are equally transparent and perform just as well (if not sometimes better) in a technical sense.
Uh oh.. here we go!An affordable R2R DAC
I'm sure that it does open up the soundstage.
All sorts of magic happens during sighted listening and/or comparisons.
Based on Amir's measurements, I would avoid anything multibit from Schiit for now. Get the Modi 3+ instead, if you're going to get the cheaper Schiit stack.
If you take a holistic approach, measurements must still be considered and the Modi 3+ costs less and has better performance than the Modi Multibit in every way measurable.I understand the importance of quantitative measurements as these are as close to scientific metrics for performance measurements as we can get, but I don't think most people know how to interpret them fairly.
By this I mean that we should take care in understanding the real world implications of these metrics.
Most users use these metrics in "relative" terms... "oh look! This DAC has less floor noise than that other DAC by a relative magnitude of 200x" when in reality that measurement may have already been so low as to be imperceptible to begin with.
For reference, I have the Modi MB, Bifrost 2, and listen to them on my Senn HD650, Senn HD800S, HFM Sundara and HFM Arya. It's fine.
I still prefer their MB sounds over my Topping D90 MQA, Matrix Audio Mini-I Pro 3 and SMSL M500 V2 MQA.
But yea, not trying to start any debate here, I just want to encourage people to take a holistic approach to considering audio equipment not based exclusively on measurements.