Alright, after a quick listen to them on my Amiron Homes, Sundaras and TIN T2s:
I went into this test thinking It’d be the THX sound but just … better, which isn’t true at all.
The amp sounds noticeably different from the THX offerings, by a good shot. Compared to the SP200 and the Atom the RNHP sounds a lot more musical and lively, however at the cost of precision in my opinion. It doesn’t sound as clinical as the Atom and the SP200. The RNHP sounds like everything’s getting a lot smoother and laid back. In my opinion it depends on what the expectations are whether or not this can be classified as an upgrade.
For me personally, I love how my music sounds more lively and coherent on my Amiron Homes and Sundaras, however I have problems with my T2s.
Even using an iFi iEMatch my T2s have a noticeable whistle sound, even when the volume is set to 0. Mind you this isn’t noise, it sounds like someone is blasting their whistle a good 500 meters away and I can hear that. Even when the source is switched / unplugged and the pot is set to zero, it’s still audible. Interestingly enough this is a constant whistle sound and won’t worsen the louder I go. It’s so audible however that I can hear it through music and that’s kinda … worrying? I haven’t had this issue on my Atom at all and on the SP200 I only had background noise but not this weird whistling. It’s also not present on my overear headphones, just the T2s.
So my first impression is kind of mixed. It trades absolute precision for smoothness and thus sounds more musical which is really nice for enjoying music, however it absolutely ruins my T2s.
Anyone got an idea? If this isn’t anything fixable I might not keep this unit as I’m getting more and more into IEMs and there’s plenty even more sensitive IEMs than the T2 who’d probably even suffer more.