Sex, Ohms, and Rock 'n Roll (impedance question)

[Joe Garfield]

I'm curious about wiring the SEX amp for headphone use and also for mono speaker output. I was looking for a headphone amp, but when I saw the SEX can power speakers I started wondering if I could use it as a guitar amplifier as well (I have a separate pre-amp.)

Can the SEX be wired with a mono speaker output (8 ohm load) and also 32 ohm stereo headphone output? Is this relatively simple to do?

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Thermioniclife]

Have you purchased a S3X kit or are you just wondering? Or on the fence? because i believe you can quite simply.

 

[Joe Garfield]

I haven't purchased yet.

Initially I thought I'd get the Crack amp to bring 'the best' out of my HD650s. But then thought a) I don't need more warmth, just the magic/life/holography/plankton/etc that comes with tube amplification, and b) if I could kill 2 birds with 1 stone and use Sex for headphones and a guitar speaker, that would be pretty awesome, and c) I just got AKG K712 and it would be nice to have the option to power them with this amp as well.

I'm still on the fence about Crack vs Sex. I started with HD650 and Magni, then moved to Vali 2 and like it a lot. The HD650 can still sound a little congested in the lower mids and I read that better amp matching can help.

 

[Paul Birkeland]

Since you have a preamp, you could just feed that into the SEX amp and plug a speaker into the speaker outputs.  I would just use one channel of the SEX for that.

 

[mudvin]

In my experience you should also consider the type of music that you listen to the most when making this decision.

Although the SEX is technically better than crack in many ways. I find the crack to be much better for rock/ metal and bass heavy music. SEX does make beautiful vocals and has a wonderful sound stage, and I'm sure better for other types of music.

Anyway I have both and mostly listen to the crack

 

[Joe Garfield]

In this case SEX would be used mostly for piano and guitar music.

 

[Joe Garfield]

I just paid for S.E.X. Please don't judge.