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Considering upgrade over Fiio K5 Pro ESS

_charizard

_charizard

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Before i had this K5, i had a khadas tone board (which i broke) and a douk u3 amp to power Audeze MM100. I bought that khadas tone board for 25 euros off aliexpress and now i cannot find one under 70. So i sold the u3 and thought k5 gotta be better than that stack since it has more power and is more integrated (i sold douk u3 mainly because of the static noise and weird popping sounds when powering on/off, otherwise very good sounding amp, and definitely much louder that k5). I can't AB compare douk to k5 anymore but i was a bit let down by it's presentation and seems to handle high notes quite poorly, compared to douk as much as i can recall, at least on my unit. What would be a upgrade over these mentioned amps? I don't care much about dacs, amp makes all te difference, but all in one dac amp combo would be preffered since onboard realtek dacs are unreliable.
 
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I think the creek OBH 11 or OBH 21 would probably be a good match for your headphones if you can get one where you are. They are very a simple amplifiers but they are made to do one job and they do it very well.
 
boza said:
I think the creek OBH 11 or OBH 21 would probably be a good match for your headphones if you can get one where you are. They are very a simple amplifiers but they are made to do one job and they do it very well.
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I can't seem to find any specs for this amp, other than it delivers 10mw from 30 to 300ohms? Seems weird.
 
_charizard said:
I can't seem to find any specs for this amp, other than it delivers 10mw from 30 to 300ohms? Seems weird.
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It's a little strange that creek don't actually tell you anything. Perhaps find a couple of reviews to see if anyone has done any measurements.
 
The Fiio K11 R2R is a very nice sounding headphone amp/DAC. It sounds great with my HiFiman Edition XS and presents a wonderful soundstage.
 
I just ordered the Fiio K11 R2R as an upgrade to my Topping E30 in my main rig. This should be interesting as I am not very astute to critical listening. We'll see which one I enjoy the most and the loser gets sold.
 
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