xDuoo MT-602
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Original price was: ₹ 9,999.00.₹ 8,499.00Current price is: ₹ 8,499.00.
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xDuoo MT-602 is a high-performance class-A tube headphone amplifier that adopts a double 6J1 tube for the pre-amp making voice sweet and exquisite and adopts transistors for class A buffer for the strong output power. With the use of a front tube amplifier and rear transistor, the sound gets immersed and melodious. The tube amplifier has a tube sound that is soft, sweet, warm with romantic and melodious vocals with good musicality. Its output power is 1300mW which can drive most of the headphones in the market.
Its line out can be used as a pre-amp which can be used to improve the sound of active/powered speakers.
Ajay Krishna Ayyappan (verified owner) –
Awesome
Works perfectly with Sennheiser 598SE and not much with Hifiman, Tube and Planar, not a good combination to hear.
The shipping wait is longer than expected, the packaging and the product are really good and the customer service is awesome as always, one of the best I can think of in that regard.
Has a tube sound and perfect for the dynamic driver headphones especially Sennheiser 500 series
Amartya Sinha (verified owner) –
Fantastic piece of equipment for any headphone!
The below is after about 12hrs of testing, including a/b testing with DACs:
There’s a subtle but consistent improvement in bass quality (bass feels “fuller”) and quantity (even at lower volumes, ie, within the bounds of the apple dongle and tempotec, bass seems to be much better present) with the amp over using just the apple dongle or sonata hd pro when volume-matched. Plus, there is tangibly more “instrument separation” I suppose, though idk if that is the correct term for it. Maybe soundstage is the correct term, but overall I can distinguish various layers and sounds even better than through just the dongles (although the space in which I can distinguish them seems to be largely unchanged).
Anyway, volume matching is fine and all but it shines when I actually make use of it, and boy does it shine bright. My source volume (Windows 10 WASAPI shared with custom eq via Equalizer APO through Peace with a -9.5dB preamp, or ALSA via Manjaro Linux without any eq) stays at 100%, tempotec is at 3 levels below max volume, and with these 2 set up in this manner, I don’t need anything more than 1 o’clock on the physical volume dial (which itself fricking joy to use; it’s so damn smooth and velvety!), and usually stays at between 9 and 11 o’clock. Anything over 12:30 is too loud to listen to for more than 20 seconds or so.
Adding everything up, I won’t say the sounds feels coloured in any way at all. All the above are quite subtle improvements, and it took me a good 3-4 hours of back to back listening to even be sure of them. Shouldn’t matter to most people; if anything, it’s overall better in all places. Albums used were Hollywood’s Bleeding, Barfi, Rockstar, Manchild and Songs of Her’s, along with various other tracks, to a Hifiman HE400i ver. 2020.
Overall I’d recommend the xDuoo MT-602 without doubt to anyone looking for a non-portable amp under 10k, although do keep in mind my experience of dedicated amps is limited to just this one lol. Make of that what you will