Yep, he's right, and I'm one of 'em. You're throwin' the baby out with the bath water,
musically. And what if you want to change CD's? Ya gonna pad on out to whatever
room the stereo's in to change it? In my corporate cubicle dwelling days, I had a
portable CD player as transport on my desk, DAC and tube headphone amp under my
desk and Senn 600's. People thought I was nuts, unless I let them listen. ;-)

The Antique Sound Labs phone amp is nice; David Berning's Micro ZOTL is a quality
monster. (Now I listen to an Audio Note Meishu and AKG K1000's - 300B's are the
only way to make these phones really happy!)