[ppl]

What would your (3) Three ideal gain settings in a Portable Amp that would accommodate all your sources and Headphones you planned to use the Amplifier with?

 

[Punnisher]

I only need 2 settings.

A gain of 1 for any iems, and all Grados.

And whatever low gain happens to be for the 2move. That's for my beyerdynamic 880s.

 

[sbulack]

Thanks for asking, Phil.
1 or 2 and 5 or 6 completely do it for me.
1 or 2 for IEMs and low impedance (< 50 ohm) phones, and my favorite buds (120 ohm).
5 or 6 for my highest impedance phones (300 ohm) with my weakest source (the on-board audio chip set on a work-issue computer).

 

[billybob_jcv]

This has been bugging me for a while... I don't have any big high impedance cans - if a gain of 5 or 6 is good for driving 300 ohm 'phones, why does there seem to be many amps with a gain of ~10? Why so high? I would think that would make those amps only suitable for a small number of cans - effectively limiting the market for those amps, no? It seems counter productive for the amp makers.

 

[holland]

2, 5, 11

Edit: 11 is for non-portable. 2 and 5 suffice for everything else.

 

[Earwax]

Gain of 2 seems to work for every thing I consider to be portabe.