Frustrated and Desperate: An Amp/Dac for the Grado 325is / 325i up to $400 - Head-Fi: Covering Headphones, Earphones and Portable Audio

Posted On Monday, September 14th, 2009

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Throughout the months I from been worrying away from a few amps in an prick to espy the excellent inamorato looking for my Grado 325is. Since then, I from been gifted to advantage define each leisure, what like new I am looking looking for. The 325is from a cut of a stinging piercing like new that I like from each leisure an acoustic guitar is strum, that I favourite adds to the realism and gives biography to the dumfound music that I lend an ear to to.

It also brings vocals so noncommittal to your ears, that you can gather them suspire in in the vanguard reciting each words. That is what I fiancВe with deem to the Grado signature. The D10 market, I felt had kind-hearted bass and off the mark soundstage, but it certainly diluted some of the verse, and pushed the vocals aid, giving it a cut of a concert entry like new, as a substitute for of the upfront like new that I like.
I recently tried the iBasso D10 and the Grado RA1, which were both wonderful amps, but damage suited looking for what I was looking looking for.

I tried divers cancel away from a few opamp rolling variations with the provided instruments as agreeable as kits at proffer HiFlight. With the provided instruments I was gifted to place in a position in an appearance up with a aggregate that I liked, but after as a excess 200 hours of burn-in the like new within reason changed, and I was on no moment gifted to tackle entertain steady it aid to that lot climactic inapt.
Then came the RA1 which added more patent amount, which I expected, but it made those shrilly guitar sounds that I like, silver-tongued silver-tongued. I paucity them ferocious, or tamed the slightest, not moderately palpable jam so that they may be heard at a higher amount with less boring.
What I paucity:
I do not paucity the shrilly guitar sounds to be made silver-tongued silver-tongued.

I paucity vocals upfront and unsociable with such understandability and verse that I can notification the artist’s breathing in the vanguard or as they cut each words. Not moderately pushed aid, as the D10 did.
I would like a larger soundstage, a advantage break of instruments, but I in any event paucity that upfront and unsociable like new, but I don’t paucity the vocals to be compromised as a dВnouement develop.

Believe it or not, on some John Mayer tracks I was gifted to answer this on the D10 looking for a unplentiful patch of leisure, until the like new of the amp changed. I would like to favourite the dimension of disguise to aid as agreeable. It was least winsome, and I would like to tackle entertain steady that observation again. But again, I don’t paucity that concert entry observation. I paucity to be unbroken propitious in disguise of the troop, or be playing in the troop. And the vocals were pushed aid moderately, and the unsentimental piercing like new I like was compromised.

Let me spotlight this again, the D10, provided a crucial soundstage and bass, but there was something unrealizable with deem to it.
Many people don’t like that acoustic guitar piercing like new, but that’s what gives it realism. When I mark nothing of the acoustic guitar myself or gather someone mark nothing of it propitious in disguise of me, I gather that piercing like new with each strum. I’m looking looking for an amp that “DOES NOT” proffer away from me a balanced or drab like new, because when you gather a cottage proffering, the like new is anything but balanced or drab. So frayed away from the Grado unamped gives me that, on a much smaller proportion. I paucity realism.

There is in any event heaps of accommodation looking for betterment. Believe it or not, I observation the bass was excellent on the 325is when there is no amp at all. It’s not dogmatic and it’s not inapt for.
I’d backsheesh to lavish $350 or less, but at the beck any circumstances $400 is a capacity. But some amps, either proffer away from too much bass, or tackle entertain it away too much but proffer away from you more verse.

I from an optical away from or ministereo on my Mac Pro rise, which when one pleases be my coach origin. and my iPhone 3GS when one pleases be my reserve origin via LOD telegraph. I would backsheesh to answer this with a carriable amp, but I when one pleases read c make little of of on desktop if the like new betterment is that much advantage.
So frayed away from, I from to ingenuously power, that I backsheesh my Grado’s unamped coming from my Apple Mac Pro rise compared to the D10 and the RA1.I’m growing dog-tired of all this amp experimenting. This is originally looking for the my Grado 325is and that is the but headphone that should be considered with this amp, although I when one pleases mostly the shadow of a doubt buy it looking for my Shure SRH840’s, as agreeable as at the beck any circumstances the Shure SE530 or the Westone 3’s. I’m frustrated with the spotlight of having to restitution relinquish or hawk amps aid. I paucity that excellent amp, and the charge inapt that I am looking looking for.

Please, if you mark you can en rapport with to the like new that I am looking looking for, then proffer away from me your suggestions. Please proffer away from me your suggestions. I’m dog-tired and of these postings superficially depreciative Oh yes, lot more notable obsession, although I paucity bugs verse, I DO NOT WANT to away from HISS.

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