Lets see your headphone stations

[WhiteNoise]

Mine is quite simple at the moment as I recently moved into another home and I'm just running a basic setup at my desk. I have spent thousands of dollars in the past 4 years on headphone equipment but sold off the $1500+ amp and such because nothing matches (that I have tried) this headphone stack I am currently using. Though I do have my eyes on another tube amp which may make itself known soon if I can bare to part with the money...

Enough of us are always talking about our gear so lets see it!

Equipment in this shot:

Garage 1217 Ember II amp
w/ Raytheon JAN-CRP-6SN7GT VT-231 tube

MHDT Lab Pagoda dac
w/ 1964 Bendix 6385 tube

Audeze LCD2 Rev. 2F can
w/ Norne Audio Vanquish Series cable

 

[Ungari]

This is where I plug in my headphones:

 

[WhiteNoise]

hahaha awesome.

 

[Jetster]

 

[WhiteNoise]

I always loved the Pro medias.

I guess no one else wants to share...

 

[Athlon2K15]

No "station" for me, I had some excellent HE400's and HD598s but i am really enjoying my rather low cost RX700s right now.

 

[GamerGuy]

This is my gaming and audio setup/station, I believe I'd posted this (or perhaps an earlier pic) somewhere in this forum here......I have an Oppo HA-1 (bottom left of pic, and is hooked up to my 2nd gaming rig, i7 4770K)) as my main headamp and preamp for the speakers. The Fostex HPA4 (bottom right of monitor) is hooked up to my other rig (Intel i7 2600K). I'm using the pair of KRK Rokit5 G3 for those times when I don't wish to use my cans. On the table just to front of left speaker is my portable gear, a HiFiMan HM901s + Campfire Audio Jupiter. The cans on the left are: Sennheiser HD800, HiFiMan HE1000 and an AKG K812.

 

[Recon-UK]

 

[Slizzo]

I've an old pair of HD590s that I plug into the volume control of my Klipsch Promedia Ultra 5.1s.

When I use the headphones, which isn't often at all.

 

[R-T-B]

Mine is on a fugly cat sabotaged antique table. It may be found in the headphone review thread. I'll post it here for referrence:

Schiit Magni 2/Modi 2 Uber & AKG K7XX Ruby Red's.

 

[Ahhzz]

Mine hang on the semi-broken door of my cheap 20-year old desk.... with an extension for the playback cable feeding to my speaker on the other side of my desk (cluttered as hell), so I can plug in when She's on her computer next to me and doesn't want the noise....

 

[R-T-B]

Mine hang on the semi-broken door of my cheap 20-year old desk....

Can't be worse than mine...

 

[Ahhzz]

I submit for evaluation

 

[GamerGuy]

Setting up a 2nd audio station for my FX8350 (which still handles gaming just fine), I already have a Gustard X12/H10 stack, I'd scored a Virtue One Class-T amp at a nice price. It's s really small (and cute) amp that can power good size speakers, I'd placed it next to my mouse for comparison:

Bought a 6m length of Canare 4S8 (cut into 2x 3m lengths), some screw-on banana plugs and heatshrinks. DIY'ed the cables to run bi-wired into my speakers. It was a short, easy and fun little project:

Last but not lease, bought a pair of Jamo Classic 4 speakers, slightly wider than my Rokit5 G3's, and a fair bit taller, but a pair of bookshelf speakers nonetheless. My HP flash kinda made it look plastic-like and turned it a tad more brownish red than it actually is.

I haven't quite set up the audio station for the FX8350 as I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly how to fit the setup on my desk......being rather busy at work and feeling pretty sapped of energy when I've finished work kinda hinder progress on this front.

I'm aware that Jamo isn't seen as audiophile like KEF/JBL and the like, I just wanted a pair of speakers that can hit pretty low (45Hz) and is more geared toward movies and easy listening when I'm in no mood to use my cans.

 

[WhiteNoise]

This is my gaming and audio setup/station, I believe I'd posted this (or perhaps an earlier pic) somewhere in this forum here......I have an Oppo HA-1 (bottom left of pic, and is hooked up to my 2nd gaming rig, i7 4770K)) as my main headamp and preamp for the speakers. The Fostex HPA4 (bottom right of monitor) is hooked up to my other rig (Intel i7 2600K). I'm using the pair of KRK Rokit5 G3 for those times when I don't wish to use my cans. On the table just to front of left speaker is my portable gear, a HiFiMan HM901s + Campfire Audio Jupiter. The cans on the left are: Sennheiser HD800, HiFiMan HE1000 and an AKG K812.

HE1000

 

[WhiteNoise]

Just added this beauty to my table. This is a custom made 6CL6 OTL amp by Jef Larson. And boy does it sound blissful!

 

[GamerGuy]

Just added this beauty to my table. This is a custom made 6CL6 OTL amp by Jef Larson. And boy does it sound blissful!

Whoa Nellie, that's damn nice! Only tube amp I'd ever tried was the Lyr, and even after owning it for just a couple of weeks, I'd started on this tube rolling phase......bought a pair of Amperex and Telefunken tubes. Wasn't really sure they'd make a difference till I'd swapped the stock GE tubes on the Lyr with a pair of Amperex, suddenly the harshness and graininess I'd noticed while listening to a female vocalist with stock GE tubes was resolved. Her voice sounded smooth and there was no harshness at all. But it occurred to me that tube rolling could get expensive, so I sold the Lyr to another guy in the local audio forums. I kinda like the sound that SS amp/DAC's produce anyway, so I'm gonna stick with them.

 

[WhiteNoise]

@GamerGuy Thanks! Yeah tube rolling can get expensive. I have around $2000 worth of vintage tubes myself, (honestly I do not want to look at what I have spend over the years on tubes. lol) It is part of the fun of tube amps. for sure. This is my 3rd tube amp and I still own two of them plus my DAC is tubed too. I've been a fan of tube amps for a few years now.

I just bought this amp and it arrived with 3 quads of tubes and I purchased 4 additional quads of tubes. So far I am enjoying the 1954 Mullards the most but have a set of Amperex tubes in it at the moment.

 

[Ferrum Master]

ahh... I am thinking of finishing my own OTL... the lack of time...

And I actually fired it up once... I need to finish LR8N high voltage regulator, to fight voltage spikes and filter out the mains noise thus omitting need for the choke, as it is OTL... it is very very hot.

 

[WhiteNoise]

@Ferrum Master That is an interesting amp! You should complete it then send it my way for testing!

What tubes are being used there? This is to power speakers? Never mind... I just watched the video! lol Very nice. I can hear the lush coming through. Good job!

 

[Ferrum Master]

I used JJ 6DJ8 for the front(btw i have bugle boys too), 6H6P for the driver and 6C19P for the output. If you are eagle eyed I have one older project with triple 6AS7[6080] and driven by Sylvania 6SN7GTA's... well I've listened to it... the 6SN7 start to breathe only after 300V, if the voltage is lower, no fun at all, so I am kind of skeptical at those small amps using that tube... no use really.

I am driving single 12inch fullrange papercone speaker there (good sensivity @ 16ohm) (I use it always for smoke testing). As you see it has power enough to drive it... around 5-10W, didn't measure, it was loud enough for the room. Well it needs very much work still, the high voltage and current demand in such envelope is a very unusual thing.

Meanwhile I need to finish my main silicon based workhorse I just simply refuse to buy overpriced rubbish in stores .

 

[WhiteNoise]

I have a few bugle boys kicking around myself. Of the 12AX7 and 6DJ8 variety. great sounding tubes. I have an assortment of 6SN7 tubes as well among others. 5-10 watts is plenty with the right speakers. I'm actually in the market for a vintage amp to power my Hsu Research HB1 speakers. I have a bid on a Mcintosh 2100 atm. This would be a perfect amp to power my speakers. I listened to one years ago and was impressed.

Good luck with your build. Youtube doesn't do it justice but even via youtube I can tell it sounds fantastic!

 

[Shou Miko]

I need a headphone stand tbh I lay mine Audio-Technica's on my steelseries mousepad

But everyone I see I want r just too expensive sadly, I want smth like this: Retro Smooth Wooden Walnut Gaming Headphone Display Stand Holder Hanger P6Q5

 

[WhiteNoise]

I have a couple of stands like that but without the round feet. They work very well. The only problem is I only have two. lol I keep my Hd600 and LCD-2 in their cases though when not in use. You can buy those cheap from China on Ebay. Maybe around $20 a pop.

I paid around $24 each.

 

[GamerGuy]

@Puma99dk |, just google 'omega headphone stand' at Amazon and ebay, you should be able to find some. I had three initially, the one on which my AKG K812 sits actually came with the K812, looks to be of pretty good quality. The lighter colored one in the pic (on which the HD800 rested) was bough for about ~30USD.

Silly me, just clicked on your link, that one costs about 15.70USD (converted from pounds) and that's quite reasonable actually. Why didn't you get it?