So, Ethan from Cable Co . sent me an email asking if I was planning to use my credit with them, because they are transitioning away from headphones, I told him I wasn't aware I had one , and he said......"Yep......$1826" I asked do you mean 182 dollars? Nope almost 2k.

I called him ASAP and verified. They are getting really low on inventory, so after talking a bit about my home setup and my taste in music and they came Saturday! I knew almost nothing about them except for their 99 Classics are my travel cans. What the hell amps are a good match? The only headphone amp I have is the Meridian Prime Amp and Meridian Power Supply. Of course my home preamp and and integrated amp have jacks, but I would much rather have a real headphone amp

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codename_username t1_ja72o57 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 9:18 AM

#2,050,621

Man one day I wish to do an impulse buy like this 😅

BionicSammich t1_ja7jk91 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:52 PM

#2,053,851

The Empyreans in black copper are, IMO, the best looking headphones out there (aside from the Jecklin Float obviously). I love my Elites, but I'd love to try Empyreans too some day.

cr0ft t1_ja7jspy wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:54 PM

#2,053,918

Any decent amp; FiiO may be a Chifi brand but their K7 amp should be great for this, THX AAA amp in there and enough power to drive just about anything. Or indeed the K9 Pro or K9 ESS but that may be overkill, but then again so are these cans. :)

Congrats.

mqtpqt t1_ja7pzwn wrote on February 27, 2023 at 1:50 PM

#2,055,326

is it just me or i have no idea what OP is talking about

RayceManyon t1_ja7srod wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:12 PM

#2,055,983

Replying to mqtpqt (#2,055,326)

I think he bought Empyreans for under $1826. Which, to be fair is a very good deal.

ender4171 t1_ja7yt8i wrote on February 27, 2023 at 2:57 PM

#2,057,477

Replying to mqtpqt (#2,055,326)

He had $1862 in store credit from Cable Co (which is nuts) but didn't even know that he had credit built up. So, he used said credit to buy the Meze's, which normally retail for around $3k. Meaning he got a set of Empyreans for basically a third of the normal price.

No-Context5479 t1_ja8vgpf wrote on February 27, 2023 at 6:31 PM

#2,066,088

u/Key_Salary974, Uhm the Meridian Prime Amp is literally labelled a headphone amplifier on their website.

Anyway the Empyreans aren't demanding so something like the FiiO K7 is more than enough.

FiiO K7 purchase link - https://www.amazon.com/FiiO-K7-Headphone-Amplifier-PCM384kHz/dp/B0BJKKPL71

Th3McL0v1n t1_ja9bgaw wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:12 PM

#2,070,472

The Topping A90D is a very good amp according to a lot of reviewers out there. I think it would fit the empyreans pretty well with it's clean and powerful output.

minimus67 t1_ja9etzh wrote on February 27, 2023 at 8:33 PM

#2,071,460

Replying to mqtpqt (#2,055,326)

The Cable Company “loans out” audio equipment - primarily interconnects, digital cables, and power cords, but also some headphones and headphone amps - charging you a lending fee of something like 10% of the retail price of whatever you borrow from them to try out at home. Those 10% lending fees are treated like store credits and get deducted from the price of anything you later buy from the Cable Company.

So if you borrow $20K worth of cables, you accumulate $2K in lending fees. If you buy something from the Cable Co, they will deduct $2K from the retail price of whatever you buy. But if you don’t buy anything because a lot of what they sell is absurdly overpriced snake oily cables, the Cable Company keeps all lending fees. It’s a savvy business model, because they incentivize you to buy from them and if you don’t buy anything, they still make a profit.

juannyca5h t1_jadgyiy wrote on February 28, 2023 at 5:26 PM

#2,113,575

Although the Hifiman ef400 of mine had a light issue and I moved on to the RME, the ef400 sound was incredibly musical and awesome to listen to. I’ve got an eye on the ef600 which will come out in a couple weeks too. The R2R sound is awesome

Key_Salary974 OP t1_jae6c33 wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:06 PM

#2,121,819

Replying to No-Context5479 (#2,066,088)

Yeah, but I wasn't sure it was a good pairing for the Meze or not. I love Meridian products and it was bought for streaming Tidal into my home system.

Key_Salary974 OP t1_jae7w0h wrote on February 28, 2023 at 8:16 PM

#2,122,367

So, is I am seeing a lot if they are efficient and easy to drive. Should I stick with the Meridian or give some other amps a chance? I have tubes in one of my home setups and love their sound.

So, the credit was from when I was looking at headphones back in 2013. I did a lot of lending library rentals of cans, amps, dacs etc. I ended up getting a pair of Audeze LCD-3's and pairing it with a McIntosh MHA100.

My wife swears she got them from Cable Co, but who knows. I got out of Headphones when we built our house with a custom theater/2 channel room (I was much more into jamming out to my B&W 802 D3's). 2 kids now and another on the way, so I figured why not go back to headphones for a few years!