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Sorry to say but it won't drive them near their potential. They come off as uninvolving and cold without a relatively powerful home amp.
Since you haven't heard anything better you'll likely still enjoy the DT880s a lot (I enjoyed them out of my Minibox-E, until I heard them properly amped).
As a rule portable amps don't really drive full-size headphones (SQ wise), they'll give you plenty of volume though.
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Well, I bought it so I could bring the DT-880's with me to study with my ipod, and also to use as a DAC for my laptop when I'm studying...so a desktop amp would have been pretty silly
But anyways, I disagree about the bass being weak...I'm listening right now (amp JUST got here via UPS from China...that was fast!) and the bass is almost exaggerated on the DT-880's, so to anybody out there wondering about whether the DT-880's have decent bass when driven by the iBasso Boa, it has plenty of bass.
Not DJ headphone levels of bass, but more than my panasonic headphones (which are decent headphones not junk), IIRC more than the porta-pros, and pretty much more than every headphone I own except the DJ headphones.
So Mastershake isn't going to get any more bass out of these no matter how insane an amp he buys, they're already very bassy, he just wants DJ headphone levels of bass which just isn't gonna happen with these headphones.
Anyways, I'd love to play the neverending upgrade game but I think I tapped out my budget...I'm just a broke medical student who lives on loans, so spending this much money is already insane enough. I'd have to starve for months if I wanted to keep upgrading
I will continue this game when I finish my residency...then I'll be able to tell you guys how you have to buy more expensive stuff to enjoy your headphones
(kidding)
Gotta go set up my hard drive with all the FLACs and have a listen...love the fact that it's a DAC since my laptop audio is awful...this is like an unbelievable upgrade compared to the stock audio and whatever headphones I was using before (various). Of course I've had better audio setups before, but the laptop always annoyed the hell out of me.