ProtegeManiac
Headphoneus Supremus
I looked at Classic -ff specs again and it does list power output "Maximum output 15V / 500 mA." I guess I missed it the fist time I looked at the specs. So let me try to remember the Ohm's law... that should be 7.5W into 30ohms... 7.5 watts in to 30 ohms! the hell??? Why "it can't drive" low impedance phones then??? I give up.
Like I said, if the reviewer likes the effect of a Burson amp, he likes the effect of a Burson amp.
To some degree it's indicative of current performance on a low impedance, and worse, low sensitivity headphone when no matter how loud it gets, it can't get enough "oomph" on the low end, even if the output impedance isn't the likely problem (same thing happens to high impedance, but up there it's not just "loud but thin-sounding," chances are you can't get that loud at all on the amps that fail to get any bass slam out of them). But there's "low noise to get in the way of what slam there is" Meier and "initially groovy but at some point you notice it's kind of overdone" Burson.
There's a similar thing wtth speaker amps. Yamaha's the weak-arse amp; then there's NAD and Marantz that can deliver a natural but groovy low end; and then there's some buy using some low power SET claiming it has more bass even on his speakers that aren't high sensitivity but you can hear how wobbly the bass is (this is a more extreme example than the Burson's strong attack, which is great, but then you only notice it's overdone after a while when you start noticing the trailing end of the note doesn't fade out as quickly as, say, a Meier or a Gilmore Lite, Violectric, etc).
