"It's unlikely that you're gong to cause damage unless you are listening to something like the HD650 and you have the other headphones still plugged in, as this will produce a very loud listening level out of the HD650.
The balanced/unbalanced switch moves grounds around but otherwise leaves the circuit alone."
"It's unlikely that you're gong to cause damage unless you are listening to something like the HD650 and you have the other headphones still plugged in, as this will produce a very loud listening level out of the HD650.
The balanced/unbalanced switch moves grounds around but otherwise leaves the circuit alone."
What headphones are you using?
The Un/Blanced switch just moves the grounds so there is a balanced ground for the XLR output, which can give a very light improvement to the sound on XLR out.
The impedance switch is just to help regulate the power when using low ohm headphones. Switching it to low impedance can help clean up the noise floor on super sensitive IEMs and headphones. Really, unless you are using super sensitive headphones/IEMs you won't notice any difference on the vast majority of headphones between high and low gain, besides maybe a slight boost in volume when switching to high gain.
What headphones are you using?
The Un/Blanced switch just moves the grounds so there is a balanced ground for the XLR output, which can give a very light improvement to the sound on XLR out.
The impedance switch is just to help regulate the power when using low ohm headphones. Switching it to low impedance can help clean up the noise floor on super sensitive IEMs and headphones. Really, unless you are using super sensitive headphones/IEMs you won't notice any difference on the vast majority of headphones between high and low gain, besides maybe a slight boost in volume when switching to high gain.
Run the Grados and most headphones under 100ohms run it on low impedance. Here is what BH say on the impedance difference.
"For headphones which are very sensitive (Grados, IEMs, etc), the low impedance setting will provide a blacker background. It will also provide lower distortion and better damping, especially into low impedance headphones.
The high impedance setting will provide more power out of the amp provided the headphones used are not low impedance headphones. The trade-off here is a slightly higher noise floor and a bit less damping and potentially more distortion. If you are using a 100+ ohm headphone on the high impedance setting, odds are you won't hear the difference in noise, nor the increase in THD and decrease in damping.
If you have super sensitive 16 ohm IEMs, you may very well be able to here these changes more easily."
Basically you won't noticed a difference unless you are using super low or super high ohm headphones.
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