I will say using the Phonitor and just an afternoon of listening it’s a great amp but I’m getting varying results. The Abyss sound great on both the Lyr and Phonitor but the improvement going to fully balanced Phonitor is marginal at best over the Lyr. But holy shit the HP3 (easiest to drive) headphones have been transformed on the Phonitor. The LCDX and LCD3 sound better on the Lyr with the tubes I’ve been able to roll in.
I probably need to sell 1-2 headphones and the bifrost 1 then buy a BF 2 or rme adi-2 dac. I really don’t need 5 hps and the weakest link in my chain now is the BF1 dac so we’ll see where my savings can take my journey.
Does anybody know much or have experience with the Rogue RH-5? A local dealer has just listed a dedicate hp amp and I’m more familiar with their full speaker amps. Wasn’t sure if this is something in the tier of Head amp mini GSX / Eleven Audio XIAUDIO ‘Formula S’ ?
So a few questions… I know Audio-gd doesn’t have the greatest reputation here. They have 2 TOTL headphone amps including the Master 9 and HE9.
Does anybody have experience with either?
If so can you give me a bit of feedback on what your thoughts were?
Does the sound signature of audio-gd match that of typical Class A in terms of warmth?
At what price point do they become a good buy?
I really can’t find much information on them in forums that seems consistent. They appear to have a few very passionate fans on headfi but in other areas they are given a negative stigma.