I think this conclusion can be only made when you directly compare amped and unamped sound. My phone can drive HE400i or KBear Believe to deafening levels, but the sound sucks. I hope the NS9 will benefit from E1DA 9038S, the Believe or KZ ZS6 surely does, while Tin T2 Plus or Revonext QT2 not so much.
I have the LG V30 (got to be tricked into raising output) and I no longer use it much at all. It does not drive the BGVP NS9 very well (without the adapter trick). Yes they can be easily driven but they definitely need more juice to get them to fully give their qualities. The sound is really good on my HiBy R5 4.4mm. Using high gain with a bit of juice reminds me of the KBear Believe, in that the volume increases slowly as the volume gain is increased.....and the sound gets meatier (sorry vegetarians).
the LG V30 have how much juice
in miliwatt ?
With the LG V30 you can't just plug in a 3.5mm IEM. To get it to go into quad dac, high output, mode.....we have to 'trick' the LG V30, which is by using a 3.5mm adapter on the BGVP NS9 (whether onto the 3.5mm or 2.5mm) to get the V30 to go into quad dac mode. Only once the phone is in quad dac mode it has plenty of power to run the NS9. In fact the NS9 sounds very good if done properly. If the NS9 is just plugged directly into the LG V30 3.5mm it sounds terrible. I'm listening right now to the BGVP NS9, connected properly, to the LG V30 and it sounds excellent. Bass is strong, mids very musical, female upper mid vocals very nice, treble not the most extended, but OK.the LG V30 have how much juice
E1DA 9038S has plenty of power (>500mW into 16ohm). Too much power in fact. On the Believe I had to apply 16ohm preset with higher distortion, by default it is optimized for 32ohm load and sounds way too cold and analytical. It sounds awesome ever since.
Yep you'll have plenty of power.
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