Pathos "Inpol Remix Mk.II" & "Classic Remix Mk.II" both have headphone circuits specifically designed to be as good as stand alone units costing big $..I can attest to the quality of the Classic Remix Mk.II,using it with HiFiMan HE1000V2,Audeze LCD-V & Focal Clear MG..
All in one unit for headphones- help me decide
This is a follow up to a previous thread. I am looking for an all in one unit to run headphones (Sennheiser HD800S) at a newly acquired vacation home. I am looking for a Dac, headphone amp, streamer, ability to play files from a SSD (internal or external) and self contained software/app. Based upon my spending time at Axpona, I have the following 4 candidates:
Auralic Altair (g1.1 or 2.1)
Naim Atom headphone edition
Hifi Rose (250 or ?)
Cambridge eVO (150 or 75)
I can easily review the features ( so limit your comments), but I am interested if anyone has experience with the relative sonic performance through headphones of these units. I am not interested in the performance through speakers and their amp output, only headphones. I have a suspicion that since the HIFI rose and Cambridge focus more on display and bells and whistles, their sonic performance is a bit below the other two.