I'm New to the Forum - Looking at Buying a SEX Amp

[nkoulban]

Hi,

I have just joined this forum looking to have a bit of fun building kits.

Right now I'm looking for advice on a SEX amp.

I have a pair of Audezee LCD2 Ortho headphones.  From research I have done SET amps with a bit of power work well with these cans.  I think the SEX is a SET amp with the required power to do the job.  I would welcome any advice or expereinces with Ortho cans and the SEX amp.

Thank you all in advance.

 

[Doc B]

The older S.E.X. kit was not a great match because of the small output transformers which resulted in soft bass on the LCD-2s. The new V2.1 S.E.X. has much better output transformers and this should be a much better match. However I haven't had the opportunity to try the combination yet so I can't give any more certain info than that. My own inclination is to go all the way and try driving the LCD-2s with a pair of Paramount 300B amps. I use them with my power hungry K1000s with excellent results and I suspect they may be the best of our amps to use with the LCD-2s.

 

[nkoulban]

Thanks for the advice.

 

[Mistertaz]

@Doc

Would there be a difference running low sensitivity cans from the speaker outputs of the SEX, rather than the headphone output?

 

[Doc B]

Both TRS jack and binding posts are connected to the same taps on the output transformers. To update this thread, one person did try the S.E.X. 2.1 amp set to 32 ohms with LCD-2s at the last Seattle Head Fi meet and seemed pretty happy with the result, feeling it had more than enough power. Another LCD-2 owner liked the Smack with his, set to the 128 ohm tap.

 

[Oberst Oswald]

More than happy with the sound of the LCD-2 (Rev 2) & Sennheiser HD 800 with the SEX 2.1