Amp for AKG Q701

[Albahttiti]

I just bought the AKG Q701 headphones recently and I have been using the Astro Mixamp 5.8 on them but I am looking for a little more powerful amp or maybe an amp/dac option I would like something that I might use some times with the Mixamp 5.8 to play on my PS4 but also to listen to symphonies and instrumentals without the hissing I hear when increasing the volume on my Mixamp 5.8. I prefer not to buy tube amps since I am very clumsy and I will definitely end up breaking the tubes. Please give me suggestions.

 

[PurpleAngel]

  I just bought the AKG Q701 headphones recently and I have been using the Astro Mixamp 5.8 on them but I am looking for a little more powerful amp or maybe an amp/dac option I would like something that I might use some times with the Mixamp 5.8 to play on my PS4 but also to listen to symphonies and instrumentals without the hissing I hear when increasing the volume on my Mixamp 5.8. I prefer not to buy tube amps since I am very clumsy and I will definitely end up breaking the tubes. Please give me suggestions.

the amplifier in the Mix-amp is fairly weak, so you can daisy chain an amplifier off the mix-amp.
Schiit magni or Schiit Vali or O2 (Objective 2).
Not sure if you will or will not still get the hissing?

 

[money4me247]

  I just bought the AKG Q701 headphones recently and I have been using the Astro Mixamp 5.8 on them but I am looking for a little more powerful amp or maybe an amp/dac option I would like something that I might use some times with the Mixamp 5.8 to play on my PS4 but also to listen to symphonies and instrumentals without the hissing I hear when increasing the volume on my Mixamp 5.8. I prefer not to buy tube amps since I am very clumsy and I will definitely end up breaking the tubes. Please give me suggestions.

hey dude, I would just first double check to make sure the hissing isn't being caused by something else before you invest in more equipment. see if you can localize the source of the problem to your mixamp & make sure it isn't a connection problem or driver issue or source file thing or headphones thing.

 

[Albahttiti]

I am testing it using flac files so it shouldn't be that I also used an amp that I borrowed from one of my friends and it worked without any problems so I ruled out the headphone problem and the source file also the mixamp 5.8 works greet with my Klipsch x10.