With Susvara I use the high gain. Balanced cables. I am at 65/100 on the volume, not low volume but enjoying it. It depends on the music and production and the headroom.about headphone drivability like Tungsten using HE9 mk3 via ACSS from R7-HE mk3?
There is a lot of talk about which amps would drive the mod house Tungsten to which DB...
I gathered that one should look at Volts rather then power and having 24 Volts must be enough. Headphones.com put up some calculator but given a DAC output voltage combined with gain of HP amp one can pretty confidently guess if it'll work out...
So I can do that with mentioned AGD combo, but what about ACSS...
2+2MA (ACSS) output spec of the DAC?
If you play songs from beatles era you will have a lot of headroom which means you need more volume. Todays modern music trend is "don´t leave no headroom" so it is mastered at a higher level of volume.
In the weekends for a cup of coffee, I am chilling to Cafe Del Mar at 20/100 volume level on HE9LE. This does not even feel low to me I hear everything.
Everything can be heard even on the lowest volume.
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With the HE400SE I use SE cable and it needs the same amount of volume like Susvara, just unbalanced. It is 2-3x times more hungry than HE1000 Stealth. I would say atleast as Arya V2.
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15W may seem to be a lot more than what you need, but it is not when it comes to the quality that the He9 is putting out. Feels like music just gets bigger and bigger instead of louder. I do think it is enough for Susvara, however I want headphones to peak at 50/100 on all amps
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What ever you do, the highend of Audio-gd needs capable speakers/headphones. Arya V2, HE1000 Stealth, HE400SE can not match the performance. I am not buying the synergy thing. Headphones either match/tame performance or gets exposed. Only the speakers/headphones are bottleneck......if the power/chain is decent with audio-gd
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ACSS is just something you either experience or you don´t - I feel this is for purist. It takes all the illusion away from the music. One step closer to the music. Buy the cheapest don´t put all your money into the ACSS to start with. Im certained it will beat expensive XLR in my chain. Put all you money into getting the system going and then upgrade this cable as you have experienced the ACSS.
Cables in general just start out cheap. Get the system burnedin and listen/enjoy the sound upgrade gradually on the journey, this is something you don´t rush, because it will feel like waste of time. Take a good 1-2month with every change. A step at a time.
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