Originally Posted by IPodPJ
Yes, it can certainly drive IEMs and if you try it on high gain you're going to most likely blow them. Low gain is always the higher quality setting. High gain should be used as a last resort as it results in lesser sound quality. You would only need to use it if you have high impedance headphones, which 98% of IEMs do not. An amp like the Cantate for IEM use is pretty pointless though, imo, even with good IEMs like the UE-11. Having formerly been an IEM guy myself and having the Triple.Fi, I can confidently say now that armature drivers are extremely unnatural sounding.
Yeah, I did not want to switch the gain around since it is not that convenient to do. My main purpose to buy Cantate is to drive my K501, which is really hard to drive with Tomahawk, Predator, and AT-HA20 (what I currently have in hands). So I need a bigger amp for it. but I do have a lot of IEMs as you can see in my signature, and I am wondering if Cantate is going to be too powerful for them. and if I do switch Cantate to low gain, would it be too less to drive K501?
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