Wyd4
Headphoneus Supremus
Hi All,
I am brand spanking new here.
I am far from an audiophile but I love good audio... Always have.
I have a pair of Sennheiser Momentums, a pair of V-Moda LP2's, a pair of UE In ears and a pair of Sennheiser 212Pro's that died of old age (bought them when i moved out of home so... 9ish years ago, so not a bad innings.
I have always used closed back headphones as I primarily use them for commuting on a train and as such, all of the above is also fairly low impedance due to being run from a phone.
I listen to just about every genre you can think of apart from country. I think my father listened to too much of it when I was growing up.
My question is, I am after a DAC/Amp that I can use in conjunction with my phone as well as my PC.
Re: the PC, my PC is locked away on the far side of the room in a cabinet, so I wish to run USB audio out of the PC rather than trying to maintain a decent signal on a long headphone cable.
My 2nd question is, given I will be using audio out headphone jack on the phone, would I expect to see any improvement to audio?
I would think not given my headphones are 18ohm and the damage would have been done to the audio by the phones DAC.
I was thinking along the lines of
http://fiio.com.cn/products/index.aspx?ID=100000014895351&MenuID=105026002
but I am open to criticism/alternatives.
Also what is the actual advantage of using the below in conjunction with the above?
http://fiio.com.cn/products/index.aspx?ID=100000017625376&MenuID=105026003
Apart from having the dac skidding around on your desk of course. Especially given again, I will not need any more power than the e17 can deliver to power any of my headphones.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated to assist this noob.
Have a great one!!!
Scott
I am brand spanking new here.
I am far from an audiophile but I love good audio... Always have.
I have a pair of Sennheiser Momentums, a pair of V-Moda LP2's, a pair of UE In ears and a pair of Sennheiser 212Pro's that died of old age (bought them when i moved out of home so... 9ish years ago, so not a bad innings.
I have always used closed back headphones as I primarily use them for commuting on a train and as such, all of the above is also fairly low impedance due to being run from a phone.
I listen to just about every genre you can think of apart from country. I think my father listened to too much of it when I was growing up.
My question is, I am after a DAC/Amp that I can use in conjunction with my phone as well as my PC.
Re: the PC, my PC is locked away on the far side of the room in a cabinet, so I wish to run USB audio out of the PC rather than trying to maintain a decent signal on a long headphone cable.
My 2nd question is, given I will be using audio out headphone jack on the phone, would I expect to see any improvement to audio?
I would think not given my headphones are 18ohm and the damage would have been done to the audio by the phones DAC.
I was thinking along the lines of
http://fiio.com.cn/products/index.aspx?ID=100000014895351&MenuID=105026002
but I am open to criticism/alternatives.
Also what is the actual advantage of using the below in conjunction with the above?
http://fiio.com.cn/products/index.aspx?ID=100000017625376&MenuID=105026003
Apart from having the dac skidding around on your desk of course. Especially given again, I will not need any more power than the e17 can deliver to power any of my headphones.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated to assist this noob.
Have a great one!!!
Scott