Article: Review | RAAL-requisite SR1a Earfield Headphone Monitor

[tmarshl]

Have owned the Raal Requisite SR1a's since they first came out.  My first love were the AKG K1000s, driven by the First Watt F1 amplifier; then the Stax SR009s, driven by the Blue Hawaii Special Edition amplifier; then the Focal Utopia, Focal Stellia and ZMF Verite Closed, driven by the Pass HPA-1.  All great headphones and amps.

 

But I have to agree with Chris and Ian Dunmore on this.  This is without a doubt the very best headphone experience I have ever had - by a MILE.  Currently listening to Riding With the King (Eric Clapton and BB King), and I can't stop - LOL. I really should be doing work, but I am hooked.   I love live performances, and this is so close I can feel in my heart, pure joy.

 

My SR1a's are fed by a Roon Nucleus > dCS Bartok > SPL s800 amplifier > SR1a Interface Box.  Clapton streamed from Tidal MQA (Qobuz also) through Roon.

[tmarshl]

19 hours ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

Brilliant system!

Thanks.   I have had audiophile speaker systems for many years.   Due to downsizing in retirement, I had to get rid of my MBL Radialstrahler speakers, and I was afraid I would never recapture that experience.  But the Raal SR1a "earfield monitors" have proven me wrong.  I don't miss having speakers at all!