Svperstar
Headphoneus Supremus
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Got to thinking. I have been on Head-fi since 2004 and heard my fair share of amps/headphones. I have been laptop only for years now and recently the headphone jack died. I picked up a Dragonfly v1.2 which sounds amazing considering it is only $150.
However it doesn't quite have enough power to full drive my Sennheiser HD580s(650 drivers in the mail yay!). It sounds good and far better then a normal headphone jack yes but at higher volumes you can just tell it isn't getting enough power and really needs a dedicated amp(I ordered an Asgard 2 yesterday since my Little Dot is getting stale).
So why did Sennheiser make them 300 ohms? Couldn't their engineers make them 120-150 ohm? I still own a pair of Sennheiser 590s and the Dragonfly powers them very well, I believe they are 120 ohm but don't quote me on that.
So is there anything in the 580/600/650 driver design that requires them to be 300 ohms?
Thanks.
However it doesn't quite have enough power to full drive my Sennheiser HD580s(650 drivers in the mail yay!). It sounds good and far better then a normal headphone jack yes but at higher volumes you can just tell it isn't getting enough power and really needs a dedicated amp(I ordered an Asgard 2 yesterday since my Little Dot is getting stale).
So why did Sennheiser make them 300 ohms? Couldn't their engineers make them 120-150 ohm? I still own a pair of Sennheiser 590s and the Dragonfly powers them very well, I believe they are 120 ohm but don't quote me on that.
So is there anything in the 580/600/650 driver design that requires them to be 300 ohms?
Thanks.