preproman
Headphoneus Supremus
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+1 for the Buffalo III and the PWD2
Are you guys boosting the pots on your amps up to unreasonable levels to get these crazy numbers? 16hz? 20hz? 15hz? 5hz? It just doesn't seem right.
At usual levels on the amp, My Denons only went down to around 25hz before rolloff, the HE-400 around 35hz, an M50 around 30hz. All this sub-sonic talk is making me think you guys are really boosting up the volume levels just to be able to hear or feel something that low.
One thing about monitoring, one area where the Paradox does concede to a top flight phone is detail retrieval. For example, there's a song by Cat Power (can't remember which one right now [..damn..]) that has some sort of distortion artifact at one point in the song. I'm pretty well trained to hear it, because it's one of my favorite songs, and it bothered the hell out of me when I had top flight phones. It's less apparent on the Paradox. How do you account for that if you're monitoring? Typically, are studio monitors or more resolving phones used as an auxilary weapon?
I wonder, is there any half-decent way to digitally attenuate volume and use the ODAC as an "DAC + amplifier"?
Smooth and 93db SPL loud is probably better than a nasty 20db peak in the treble at 83db SPL.