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Ok, I'll try to sound like a surfer here:
Dude!!!!! DUDE!!!!!! They sound like so much better with an amp, it's tubular man!!! You just gotta' get one! Just get one! Just do it, man... just take the leap and ride the crest!!! You won't be able to go back, man... It's a whole other world with one of those magical boxes man!!! For sure, dude!!
LOL!
Seriously though, it makes all the difference in the world...but only when used with a line out dock... otherwise, the improvement is very marginal, just a louder sound, since you are thus amplifying an already subpar amp. A good line out cable makes an enormous difference too.. but take one step at a time... Training your ears to hear everything takes awhile. When I was doing that in car stereo, it took me a solid year of listening to my system before I got it tuned to the way I like it..... and with headphones, forget it!! It takes much much longer. If it didn't, people wouldn't have constant cases of upgraditis. One thing I've learned in this hobby is that no matter how good I think my rig is, there is always room for improvement... because everytime I said "no, that won't make much of a difference" it did... every --- single --- time.... But you've started with a great place... You have the Triple.Fi, and you can only top those with custom UE-10, and the UE-10 might not even have as much bass response around 60Hz if I understand correctly, but I'm not certain. So don't worry about upgrading your IEMs... you've got great ones.. just focus on a nice little amp and good line out interconnect...
See my rig below:
Monkey:
Do you feel your DACs offer more of an improvement to your UE-10 than an amp? Equal to? Tell me your feelings on DACs, and where is a good place for me to start with one. You know anyone that can swap out the DAC in the iPod 5th gen for a Burr Brown chip? Is that even possible without major hardware rewiring?
Originally Posted by Spyro /img/forum/go_quote.gif Sorry, and I don't have the techno-knowledge, I'm just a regular guy....but why in the world would you need an amp for IEM's with Ohm rating under 30? EQ capability? Yes, definitley, but I think the whole amp thing is grossly over-rated with IEM's. Total waste of money in my opinion. Isn't that the whole point of 95% of IEM's?? Portability without an amp???? Granted , I realize my ER-4S benefited greatly from an amp, but ONLY if the amp had EQ to boost that bass up. IMHO, if you are going un-amped, Ety's bass will always seem shy, even with ER-4P version. I'm actually starting to warm up to these Triple Fi's. It's weird. Not sure if it's burn in or my ears just getting used to them but man...they definitely have a BIG FULL SOUND! I'm not really noticing any kind of "suck out" but maybe I'm not sure of my frequencies. And this is my first pair of Ultimate Ears. |
Ok, I'll try to sound like a surfer here:
Dude!!!!! DUDE!!!!!! They sound like so much better with an amp, it's tubular man!!! You just gotta' get one! Just get one! Just do it, man... just take the leap and ride the crest!!! You won't be able to go back, man... It's a whole other world with one of those magical boxes man!!! For sure, dude!!
LOL!
Seriously though, it makes all the difference in the world...but only when used with a line out dock... otherwise, the improvement is very marginal, just a louder sound, since you are thus amplifying an already subpar amp. A good line out cable makes an enormous difference too.. but take one step at a time... Training your ears to hear everything takes awhile. When I was doing that in car stereo, it took me a solid year of listening to my system before I got it tuned to the way I like it..... and with headphones, forget it!! It takes much much longer. If it didn't, people wouldn't have constant cases of upgraditis. One thing I've learned in this hobby is that no matter how good I think my rig is, there is always room for improvement... because everytime I said "no, that won't make much of a difference" it did... every --- single --- time.... But you've started with a great place... You have the Triple.Fi, and you can only top those with custom UE-10, and the UE-10 might not even have as much bass response around 60Hz if I understand correctly, but I'm not certain. So don't worry about upgrading your IEMs... you've got great ones.. just focus on a nice little amp and good line out interconnect...
See my rig below:
Monkey:
Do you feel your DACs offer more of an improvement to your UE-10 than an amp? Equal to? Tell me your feelings on DACs, and where is a good place for me to start with one. You know anyone that can swap out the DAC in the iPod 5th gen for a Burr Brown chip? Is that even possible without major hardware rewiring?