Decware amp thread, Zen Triode / Torii / Mystery / Taboo / CSP

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@NickMimi

For anyone that cares, I asked Steve Deckert the owner of Decware, on the Decware forums about the collaboration w/ ZMF. He was not going to say anything but since the rumors are out and i think Zach of ZMF may have mentioned it, i am attaching Mr. Deckerts personal response.

—-> “I have designed a full out assault CSP3 style headphone amp / line stage for ZMF. We begin production of it this summer. I have hired a contractor to build this so that ZMF sales have no effect on Decware productivity. Nothing has been said because it’s not my place to speak about it, but if word is out than I guess it’s no problem.

I decided to do this reference piece for Zach rather than Decware because his clientele are much more focused on a high dollar headphone experience and I think we would sell a lot more that way. A CSP3 with full anniversary mods comes close but this is noticeably better and it should be, the whole thing is super tedious to build and is using way over the top parts. Parts so different the chassis had to be designed from scratch to accommodate them. If you live in your headphones and want a reference OTL headphone amplifier / line stage I seriously doubt you’ll find anything that sounds even close for the money.

That’s all I’m going to say about it. You’ll have to wait until it is released from ZMF to learn more.

Very interesting, will be really curious to hear this amp if I get the chance, I’m sure it will be great