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  1. Phantaminum

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    Hi friends,

    Up for sale is what I personally consider one of my favorite amps - the ZMF Pendant. It personally knocks so many things out of the park: speed, very clean sounding, black background, blackness between instruments, separation, slam, speed, and engagement factor. Top notch pairing with the Verite Open, Auteur, HD650, Aurora Borealis, and any other dynamic headphone I've thrown its way. It can easily run planars as well but I found the Verum One and Hifiman Ananda are better served by solid state amplifiers. I really hold this amp in high regards.

    The amp is being sold because I curiously ended up buying the Elekit TU-8600s kit to piece together and surprisingly the Elekit has taken over headphone duty. The Pendant gets very close technically (with much cheaper tubes) to the Elekit, but the pimp-my-ride version of the Elekit got me the last 10% I was looking for. The condition looks brand new but I'll leave it at a conservative 9/10.

    Shipping state side for now and looking for $1500. I'll pay for insurance and you pay for shipping. It'll come with a set of JJ audio tubes to get you going, the nuclear code suitcase that keeps it safe, and the default power cable it came with. Thanks for looking.

    Friends can take it for $1400.

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    Elekult more like it ;)
     
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    I will wait for Tommy to sell his:p
     
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    How's this badboy compare to starlett with HD650 and Aeolus ?
     
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    Was kind of wondering that myself - should send a message to @Phantaminum, they gave me some useful impressions just because I was curious about the amp (though I'll definitely be sticking with my SW51+ for awhile).
     
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    You mean my SW51+ :p
     
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    Out of curiosity, what does the nuclear code suitcase with the amp in it look like? I’m guessing it’ll look super oddly satisfying and I want to see it haha
     
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    Wouldn't know. Never owned the Starlett but triangulating, the Starlett sounds like it has better microdynamics while the Pendant has better transients.

    All conjecture of course.

    Fuzzy handcuffs and launch codes not included. ;)

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