With The RNHP, you should be fine.
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The RNHP feels like a THX amp event to me. one of those amps that come along once in a while and performs way above its price. I think iâll be happy with it. I mean there doesnt seem to be any competition to it until you hit the 1000$ range.
Yeah, the RNHP is top of its class for single ended in its price range. Also from what Iâve heard I donât really like THX and prefer the RNHP sound. I think M0N said something similar.
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many feel the same just sounds more natural apparently. but I think thats more due to the thx amps sound too clinical for many
Yeah im good with single ended. before i needed to have a XLR but its always a pain to have to go looking for a xlr cable for like every new headphone i get. expensive too. worrying that the XLR port in my amp may sound better than the single ended. One of the things i like with the RNHP i dont have to worry. and every headphone i got will connect to it np.
Too Clinical is how I would describe my experience with THX exactly.
I never heard it on that benchmark amp, but the THX I heard via SMSL and Drop are just boring. It feels like the perfect on paper ideal of an ultralinear sound. But for me it has no character.
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Itâs also somewhat lacking spatial capabilities, as everything is also pretty flat dimensionally. Also timbre and control is an improvement as well
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I am curious about the green rebel amp 500$ and class A amps. i heard some people wont listen to their headphones with anything else.
Yeah! Itâs as if you took a rising tone. THX is a digital output of that rising tone. Absolutely perfect with no character. Perfect for professional set ups where you need that to judge an audio feed without any worry about if what youâre hearing is being affected by the output. Whereas an other amp, like the RNHP or my Chord Hugo TT2 is as if someone set up an anolog modular synth where the specific electronics adds a character to it. Itâs perfect and follows the line just as closely, but contains a⊠character thatâs appealing. Depth, weight, complexity that THX just canât reproduce
Itâs the brush that affects the stroke I suppose.
I am really bad at describing this lol
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Iâm sure itâs a solid amp, I havenât heard it yet personally. I wouldnât get too wrapped up on topology though, there are good and bad class a lol. It doesnât really matter sound quality wise what topology used, it matters more the resulting sound of the design. You are already getting a class a/b amp, which is essentially just a class a but if it needs to reach for more power (unlikely) it goes into class b
I want to pick one up. I just hate the colour. Doesnât match my set ups.
Yeah the hype around Class A amps is like that isnât it?. You go an ask them what Class A they use and they all use Great Class Aâs it seems. Not some crappy thing that had to be shipped all over the world to get to them for like 800 bucks max. Theyâre all playing on Pass Labs or the like. So its hard to trust their opinion on the matter.
Itâs one of the problems of discussing hobbies on the internet I suppose. We are only given a slice or narrow band of whatâs being presented to us, so these inherent biases form in groups that take the conclusion theyâve reached for granted (All class A amps are great, but they only buy great class Aâs so they will never know what a crappy one is like because they donât even know it exists lol)
I mean my main studio monitors are class D amps, and they aint low quality lol. My main listening for fun is class A, but it really just matters on the quality of the amp more than the topology
Yep, its why I wish there were more variety of amps in Toronto Hifi stores to judge. I heard a bit of bryston amps on your suggestion so now I really want that because I want the sound. But just for curiosityâs sake I would like to listen to other amps like Parasound or the Chord Ultimas/EtudĂ©
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I really like the warmer sound of parasound halo amps. The chord amps I am indifferent to, I have no strong feelings one way or another lol
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Yep, itâs like everything on the thx is on the same line. All the instruments and vocals lined up.
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Messing up a Class-A topology is kind of hard. It its simplest form it is two components: Resistor (usually 10k for line level) and the transistor.
All other topologies require some form of balancing out components, filters, control circuits/feedback or output filtering. Lots of areas to fuck-up royaly (or cheap out on).
That being said, you wonât run a techno disco on Class A and wonât buy cheap Class D for your headphones.
sighâŠsuffering from so much headphone envyâŠ
If I ever get my hands on a laser cutter, water jet or CNC router/mill, nothing is sacred from half-assed DIY by MF anymore.
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DIY utopias? Lets make it happen
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