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Message started by Nick324 on 06/06/22 at 01:27:03

Title: Decware ZMF collaboration?
Post by Nick324 on 06/06/22 at 01:27:03

Rumors of a Decware / ZMF collaboration are making their way through the HP forums. Steve, What are you collaborating on w/ Zach? Will it be a brand new HP amp or are you tweaking a Taboo or CSP for him to offer as a package deal of some kind under the ZMF brand? Why is there no talk of this here, did i miss a thread somewhere?

Title: Re: Decware ZMF collaboration?
Post by Steve Deckert on 06/06/22 at 02:21:35

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.

-Steve

Title: Re: Decware ZMF collaboration?
Post by Nick324 on 06/06/22 at 03:30:28

Nice…I used to tell folks how good my Old CSP2 sounded and how well it played w/Dynamic drivers. Very much looking forward to your new design. Sweet, I’m happy I asked, thank you for the efforts and the design update!