There are actually two different types of clipping going on: 1) Input clipping. Feeding the A3 from the lineout of my interface results in input clipping (testing it with sinewaves it's pretty obvious it's clipping). With the headphone out, I can reduce the output and the issue is gone. Have...

Thanks for the reply! I ended yo getting the A3 and am quite satisfied. Only issue is that it seems to clip the input when fed the line out of my interface, so I'm feeding it through the headphone out. You said you own Fiio amps above the A3, did you notice any change in sound quality using...

Hey everyone, I use my AKG k271 daily for work (musician and composer, mainly film scoring) and also for general music listening (very eclectic, but lots of electronic, experimental and classical) feeding of my audio interface (Tascam 4x4). The headphone out on the interface is quite anemic (45...