Pulling out all the stops

[Armaegis]

So according to the rumour mill over at headfi, there's a K1000 successor in the works from the original designers...

 

[kritpoon]

Anyone who have heard the Neothoriator, could you be so kind to describe its sound characteristics? Maybe when pairing with HD800s? Or with Planar type headphone? Or even against the Mainline?

Thanks a bunch. I am curious and interested, its quite difficult for me to hear The Neothoritator myself, since I am in Thailand.

 

[Doc B]

In spite of the huge tubes it is more of a neutral, tonally balanced and very resolving sounding amp than a lush, mid bass emphasizing, tubey sounding amp. There is plenty of power for any headphone you can throw at it. Mainline at about 600mWpc is pretty good most with inefficient cans, but some of the most inefficient headphones like K1000s or some of the HiFiMan headphones might not play clean as loud as they possibly can with a Mainline. That is no problem with the Neo, which can do about 4Wpc.

It also happens to make an incredibly good preamp, the only we we have come up with that can outdo the BeePre for the "you are there" kind of presentation.

 

[kritpoon]

Thanks Doc... I kinda get the picture now. From the reading, I assume the Neothoriator is to pair best with K1000s. I am still waiting on the news of the new K1000s apparently. Which I assume will go wonderfully with this amp.

 

[Doc B]

Don't know what the new K1000s will be like, if they happen. But we do have a pair of original ones to sell along with the Neo that we have available.

 

[adydula]

Doc,

Did you ever sell this ?

Alex

 

[Doc B]

It is available. You can contact me directly at docb at bottlehead dot com if you are interested.

 

[dncnexus]

Is the Neothoriator still available or available to purchase one?