I think youâll be fine. It wouldnât be my first pick but itâs not bad by any means. Fortunately, youâll get to listen to it for yourself.
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The Soloist isnât a bad amp pairing, better still if you use the V6 Vivid OPamps. The bottleneck will be your DAC, the VC scale very well and gain a lot with neutral (warm lean) DAC with good macro and micro detail.
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because too many people purchased them, but ZMF are not for everyoneâs taste. Iâve sold my VC because they were way too dark to my ears. Some people love dark sound.
I do use the V6 Vivids.
Do you really think the Schiit Gungnir Multibit is a bottleneck? I am curious about which DAC you think would do a better job.
Damn well, I like the sound. The look and handbuilt aspect also. I mean shit, this is museum quality!!!
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I have purchased a second hand Bottlehead Crack with Speedball for the ZMF, it will arrive tomorrow. I will post my impressions comparing it to the Soloist after.
If it really makes a big difference i will probably invest in a better tube amp, maybe a WA22? I will probably need some help deciding which one to get.
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For aeolus with some better tubes, i would describe the crack as addictive 
Some impression with the verite closed would be nice because I too have my eye on a pair for the collection 
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Which tubes do you like on the Crack?
I will probably tube roll looking for one that focus on bass slam
I have a Thomson 6080wa that opens up the crack a bit in high mids and top with decent soundstage
And I switch the 12au7 between a one factored by madzda and 5814 Jan Phillips
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Those are so pretty!
Can anyone speak to how these headphones perform with hip-hop and r&b?
I wonder if theyâre too resolving, and therefore unforgiving with rap music that I love.
Iâd demo them, but ZMF didnât attend CanJam NYC this year 
If god exists, I heard his voice today with my new purchase in LTD Koa wood. I was comparing these to the atticus at the zmf dealer in my country.
The shop is divided into cubicles for people to try out various headphones (high tier hifiman, zmf, kennerton, abyss etc), and each cubicle has a different setup. My setup was the following.
I swear they always have the most insane setups at these shops, itâs how they get you! I listened to the godly dac amps at the shop and came home to my setup (e70/l70)⌠Anyway the atticus (ori pads) definitely had the bass boost that I read so much about, but weirdly I didnât think they sounded warm like LCD2 pre fazor or Denon d5200. They definitely had a bass boost but sounded a bitâŚdark? to me (upper mids were recessed, but the treble had a slight sparkle). The Verite C (auteur pads) sounded great but was very sibilant in the treble for me (not as bad as say focal elegia, but still there), and I wanted a slight boost to the bass/low mids, but as I didnât have a EQ to work with within that cubicle I took the ori pads off the atticus and swapped them onto the verite, and that was when they sounded AMAZING. Truly the perfect tone I was looking for (LCD2F in closed back) with amazing technical performance. Back home now, and while ori pads are being shipped, I eq-ed the auteur pads as best I could and the verite just sounds amazing. Super technical, super fun, amazing soundstage (are these really closed backs?) but strangely NOT relaxing to listen to (maybe on tubes, but my xduoo ta 20 plus is still being shipped), they definitely take up your attention.
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