Schiit makes a modified jotunheim that powers it sans speaker amp for 900 usd
Sheesh! its like the STAX all over again.
Thatās actually the least painful option as raalās in house headamp is 3100 dollars or folks are powering it with chord Ć©tude desktop amps which are 5500 dollars
Now i wonder of the Jotunheim does it justice
According to headphones. Com review it does. I think I posted it at the top of the raals official headphone page on here
Also raal sells it on their website as an option which I mean is a pretty good endorsement tbh
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Similar?
Kinda but I think M0N said theyāre evolved well past the AKGs to the point where they are their own thing now
Isnāt the guy that worked for AKG on the K1000 now working for RAAL?
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Yeah. But the tech is fundamentally different I believe while overall goals are the same. With their replaceable Ribbon Driver in the Raal, I would assume from a pure tech point it seems like its functionally closer to the heddphones in that way while being infinitely more resolving
The reason itās so hard to drive is itās extremely low impedance. Most amps arenāt designed to handle that low of a load, so they have to make a converter box to make it usable with speaker amps, but that box isnāt that efficient so it takes a lot of power
Raal also just made their own driver box for it too
Oh god not another HE6SE power needy brother?
Yeah pretty much, but itās harder to drive for different reasons than the he6
Am I the only one that wants to see Z get ahold of this and go nuts?
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Kinda but I think itād be a toss up between Seeing it as an investment in quality like Stax or being super indignant over the price.
Heās gotten stuff through headphones dot com and they sell it so he could concievably get a review sample from them
Imo itās pretty different than stax from my experience, only similar to stuff like the akg k1000, mysphere, jecklin float model II, etc (but not really all that similar to those either tbh)
I was more referring to the āinvestmentā angle where you have to buy the headphone then a separate unique element to power the headphone moreso than how they function
Best buy a curio cabinet to go with like the Victorianās did lolā¦
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Ah gotcha, I was going more off of sound here
I meanā¦ Doing a version of that for dust sensitive items like ElectroStats, Raals Etc with drawers for their equipment would be pretty baller tbh
Side Note: Iām annoyed Headphones dot CA doesnt sell these headphones. The American Site does.