Headphone amplifiers and audiable differences between them
The subject pretty much says it all, but I'll elucidate on my question. I've recently gotten into headphones over speakers and I'm looking for a good headphone amplifier. Just like the rest of the audio equipment world you can spend crazy money on this stuff including a $10,000 headphone amplifier by Chord. Aside from the sonic differences that two headphone amplifiers of two different types (such as tubes versus solid state) might make, can I expect that a $10,000 amplifier that has the same wattage output of a $1,000 amplifier should sound relatively the same all things being equal?
In other words the same difference is I would expect from a reasonably priced solid-state amplifier versus a ridiculously priced solid-state amplifier in the speaker world?