kwkarth
Electronics guys... we have our plusses and minuses. With advent of digital everything, we're being phased out
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Driving the HE-6s proficiently? I doubt it.
Driving the HE-6s proficiently? I doubt it.
I know...orthodynamic hp's such as the HE-6's require lots of power to be driven.
Pairing myself the HA-160 with it, i wasn't disappointed at all. It does drive it. (Unless you want to blow up your ears)
I've never heard the Burson, but with the kind of power it offers you really don't have a whole lot of dynamic headroom, take into the account that a stressed active part can do a number of different things to whats going into it.
So what it means is that with am amp like the Burson you will be limited to listening to less complex music, in some cases also less dynamic music. In high frequency world we call this spur free dynamic range, and you will find that in order to maintain a high spur free dynamic range, you need to have lots of reserve power, well over what is required of the single largest signal in the "environment" in our case the music. Or you will listen at a lower volume, and once you aren't listening to the phones at the same level you are not really comparing apples to apples, so this goes back to kwkarth's statement, profficiently?
I think you need to listen to it...we can't give our oppinion based only on specs. Unless you have tried it before. What about people using it with the Audeze lcd-2, or the Fostex T50RP? they have the same impedance of the HE-6's. And the Burson drives them very good.
What about people using it with the Audeze lcd-2, or the Fostex T50RP? they have the same impedance of the HE-6's. And the Burson drives them very good.
Just saying, theres more to power than most people realize.
Peace.
1. I dont own the HiFiMan planars, nor do I own the LCD2. All my cans are 32-ohm or less, high sensitivity and easy to drive.
2. The fullsize amps I have owned have been reasonable DACs with a 'headphone amp' tacked on. In short, crap.
3. The stereo amps I have owned have had reasonable headphone stages, but nothing to write home about (Marantz the best of the lot)
Having established that I know very little of which I speak, please feel free to ignore the following rant:
I have lost count of the number of times a HeadFier has tried to lump the HiFiMan cans with the other orthos: WHY ?????? I was able to drive the T50RP to reasonable levels with my iBasso D4 portable, but I would never even mention those cans in a thread about the HiFiMan orthos - the only thing they share is a common design principle. Skylab was able to drive the LCD2 from a couple of portable amps he tested, but I doubt that he would even bother with the HE series : whatever came out the other end wouldnt be an accurate reflection of their capabilities. As others have pointed out, you cant just look at an impedance rating and make assumptions, but we seem to do it with monotonous regularity - witness various posts from nitwits claiming that Grados dont benefit from amping.
Can we please move on from this ? If the crew at 6Moons can work it out, surely we can.
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