![]() As soon as the Mogami cable was jacked in, the whole soundstage expanded not only in size but also frequency extension, the bass filling out beautifully. The stock cables - admittedly not run in at all - were a bit lean and lacking in bass weight and somewhat dry in communication. Even better with the addition my Mogami 2893 cable, from the much loved Senn HD540 Ref1s. The Schiit stack of Magni 3/Mimby was already well warmed up beforehand, so it was just a matter of firing up the Questyle QP1R as a source (optical out) to the Mimby and we were up and running.Įven brand new, they have surprised me with the Magni 3! What an excellent combo! That slightly over-warm bass and laid back mids from what I recall of my old HD650s has gone, the bass is remarkably open, taut and even and vocals are explicit, especially after several hours of warm up time this afternoon while I was out doing other things. My new HD6XX arrived on my doorstep at lunchtime today. Wowza There's hope for the HD6XX in this set-up yet! I've just this moment realised that I'm getting a great deal of that experience right now with my current set-up! And with even more "joie de vivre". The most stunning experience I had with my HD650s was with an all valve TRI TRV4SE preamp mated with my very highly upgraded Silicon Chip (their top model) headphone amplifier, that had Black Gate and Nichicon Muse caps throughout, Dale resistors and a stonking Audio gd class A fully adjustable power supply, with an Audio gd "Earth" HDAM in place of the op-amp slot - I still have this amp and three other versions of it, from stock to a slightly less upgraded version of the 'top dog' The quality and power of the bass and sheer detailed smoothness that came through this kit has stuck with me in memory ever since. It just very rarely ever happens like that! Like so much else these days, attention span and instant gratification can limit (!) the appreciation of growing awareness and coming to know and understand either a product or a person. I have noted with many folks on line that buy new gear, they listen for a couple of days, get a surprise that it's a bit different than the expected and just sell it on with almost no run in time at all, expecting things to be perfectly fine instantly. ![]() Folks at the time were talking like 300 hours! Well, I think mine loosened up a bit before that, from my memory of notes taken at the time something like 150-200 hours, weeks of listening time and slowly, almost imperceptibly incremental after that, though noticeable in retrospect. A tad off topic, I knowĪlso, I remember my original HD650s taking a long time to really run in and loosen up. The V2 with it's lovely Amperex 6DJ8s now had a similar tonal balance to the upgraded Ref1s, hence a much better balance (though still superior SQ!) of the Magni 3/Mimby combo. Anyone here heard that combo yet?Īfter a long listening session late one evening very recently, I discovered that it wasn't so much that the Valhalla 2 was doing anything wrong as such, just that it was too much of a good thing. It appears the HD650/HD6XX is a good match for that amp. I have seen a more recent YouTube review of the Darkvoice 336SE though and I'm somewhat intrigued by this long popular amp. Even the 28 years younger HifiMAN HE400S hardly get used now, they almost bore me in comparison, though still sound great with the QP1R DAP. Heaven knows how the HD6XX is going to compete with that Ref1s, nothing else has. I sold the V2 as I was no longer enjoying it to anywhere near the degree of the M3 and bought a Mimby instead, with change! Wow! The SQ all round has not looked back and all the fine qualities of the M3 I enjoyed became even more enhanced with such a natural and life-like effortless joie de vivre that I can't stop listening to it. It became no contest! I was stunned how much more transparent across the range, tighter focus with much more fine detail and sheer life the M3 had. that was until I really sat and listened to them on the Magni 3. I loved it for a while once I'd upgrade the pads and cable on my wonderful old Senn HD540 Ref1s. I've actually sold off my Valhalla 2, despite having great Amperex Orange Globe valves in the front end.
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