[Blackstone]

I don’t think I have nearly enough hours on the [emoji442] amp section and am letting it burn in with the Ayre IBE disc when I am not listening. I gave it 10 hours of pure noise track torture over night and it seems noticeably smoother today with my ruthlessly transparent and sometimes bright, balanced, Grado PS1000e cans. The demo unit I heard at Audio Consultants last year must have had a more broken in headphone section because I heard it with the same cans and it sounded really smooth. The headphone amp is formidable, especially balanced and replaced my Bryston BHA-1 easily, and that was a fine unit. I am hoping it will further improve with another week of torture.