We had the LF and the ba both hooked up to my front end at a meet and most thought the ba sounded better with the lcd2.

What about the HE6? Don't people like powerful tube amps for them? That was my inclination for them.

And what about the Liquid Fire? Seems to be a good match for the Audeze from what I've read. (spare me the KG propaganda please)

Not sure where you got the "tube amps for the HE6" from. My experience is the opposite. I've found most orthos to sound better from good SS, though it's not cut and dry ofcourse. The Dynahi is the best amp I've heard with the HE6.

for those that want to scratch heads further...

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/m60-power-117.gif

http://gilmore.chem.northwestern.edu/m60-signal.gif

No one has done a circlotron amp for headphones before.

Ryan pointed out to me that the DSHA is, arguably, a sort of cyclotron. Not done on purpose, but seems to fit the "floating bridge output stage" part of the definition.

Sumo was good stuff.

Edited April 4, 201214 yr by dsavitsk

No other circlotron I know of has input or output transformers.

Pretty sure that is verboten

If you read broksie's write up on circlotrons, it's just another version of push pull

With the center of the load as ground.

No other circlotron I know of has ... output transformers.

Pretty sure that is verboten

Except, of course, the original version for which the name was coined ...

True, many people say that they absolutely hear an across-the-board improvement with RMA. My LCD-3 is from the very first batch and I have never heard of the "unveiled" ones, but my feeling is that what Audeze did was to make it sound natural / neutral (kind of trying to be HD800 but then it's no longer LCD3).