Comments on Profile Post by wbass

It's an interesting combo of qualities. Think I can hear the tube-iness many talk about with this amp. Or, rather, I don't miss that I'm not listening through a tube amp. Previously, the Senns have really not been great, for me, through solid-state amps. With the exception of the BHA-1, which is quite warm and thick. The Enleum is more "see through."

I think you hit the nail on the head that it is not necessarily tubey, but more than it has a quality that does not leave you missing tubes. Interesting on the HD58X, maybe I need to revisit that pairing. What did you think with your Fortes? That ultimately is the combo that sells me on the Enleum.

Yeah, it's an interesting amp. I think it's down to the gentle and refined top end. I wouldn't call it smooth so much as... delicate? It captures a lot of nuance. Also, I don't hear the presentation as forward in the way other solid-state can be. It's a few rows back. Calm and composed are the words coming to mine.

HD58X happens to be the other HP I have on hand. Since I'm stuck in temporary lodging waiting for my flat purchase to complete, and there was a lovely mold mite outbreak the other day, my Sus, VC, and LCD-4 are safely (I hope) away in their cases.

I wasn't expecting magic from the HD58X/Enleum combo, but am finding it very listenable and perhaps even considerably more involving than what I recall from, say, Piety or maybe BHA-1. Just more micro-detail and a more composed stage. Unsurprising, given the cost difference, but just stream-of-conscious thoughts here really....

As for the Forte's: Still in storage. Hopefully coming to me in... a month or so?