milezone

brutes.

Fitting name for your company. It's very simple: Less circuitry means less effort to get the original information in its most accurate state. This translates to clarity, or accurate reproduction from the source. As a circuit becomes complicated more signal information is lost. As the less dynamic frequencies are lost the signal becomes compressed. For the listener, this is experientially the sensation of congestion. And if I had to guess, Ram Audio isn't high grade parts to compensate for this problem. Instead it seems they took the more power and we can retain some of the information approach. Second, the "shitty" damping factor doesn't matter in this instance since again we are talking about tiny very drivers which despite their low sensitivity, are more nimble than Lowthers, Fostexs and the rest when amped equally. In other words, what you said is totally irrelevant. Give it a shot and see for yourself.

On the topic of the F1, it may not statistically be the best amp for the K1000's. However comparing a ~4.5 cm headphone driver to an 8 inch driver and ultimately trying to make the case that 10watts isn't sufficient to drive the k1000's is ridiculous. The output impedance of the F1 is 80ohms. In a perfect would it would be 120. The phase mismatch is fairly insignificant. While the sensitivity is more important one can't forget that despite its 74dB/w rating, it's still a headphone, and an extremely nimble one at that. While the K1000's have a 74 dB/w rating, we cant forget, they're still headphones. In defense of the F1 it does certain things that most other amps aren't nearly capable of. Realism being the number one trait. Inherent to its simple design, the F1 practically eliminates the noise floor. The result is a presentation of sound which appears into space and disappears back into space effortlessly. While the Ram Audio BUX 2.0 which haven't heard (or heard of prior to this thread) likely controls the drivers better (hard to imagine) and may excel in other areas, its complex circuit makes this quality of the low noise floor impossible (not to be confused with a black background). The effect of this, in my best estimation, is a loss of this sense of effortlessness. The tradeoff -- stronger dynamics. Please correct me if I'm wrong.