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Originally Posted by obobskivich  why run a splitter? thats going to influence results massively, and probably not give you the accurate image you wanted
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It's a little hard to judge headphone driving capabilities without having any cans plugged in, isn't it? The effect of the splitter should, ideally, be negligible.
It may be helpful to use something better than the crapdapter[tm] that I had, but even like this the
results watching a SB Live! 24-Bit, Aureon Sky and reflashed Aureon Sky break into sweat (with levels increasing in that order, so cards are not directly comparable) were quite interesting.
Seems like the opamps are breaking into sweat first (the switchable headphone driving stage on the Aureon helps here, also getting output impedance back down), then the influence of the supplies comes through at low frequencies and eventually there is quite a bit of distortion across the band... that must have been at close to 2 Vrms or whatever the Aureon can put out, poor old HD590
(cans survived unharmed, power must have been around 20 mW - yeah, they were pretty loud then).
As Ladytron was mentioned as "previously unlistenable on DT770s"... their most recent album "Velocifero" isn't very enjoyable at higher volumes on my Tascams either. Very hot mixing there. I don't want music pushed in my face, thank you very much, I'm not deaf yet.
