[Kosmik Panda]

Im not sure which headphone to get and not sure if a amp would do the headphones good, help please!

 

[LazBro123]

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Im not sure which headphone to get and not sure if a amp would do the headphones good, help please!

no. They are extremely efficient, and do not need one. You can easily run them through macs, PCs, iphone, ipod etc.

 

[PurpleAngel]

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I'm not sure which headphone to get and not sure if a amp would do the headphones good, help please!

Having a good DAC is always a plus with whatever headphone you use.
What source(s) are you going to be plugging the headphones into?

 

[Jay Delo]

I would also like to know sense i just bought the ultrasone hfi-580's and i was wondering if i should get a amp, i would be plugging it into my iPod touch and my mac computer/laptop

 

[HiuFei]

The Ultrasone is quite responsive to EQ. I remember my friend who has a DJ1 when he first started this hobby and we hooked it up to a cheap E5, bass boost on and woah! That was some awesome bass performance. Even without the bass boost we still found improvements over bass transient responses.
 
Well for merely $20 even psychological effects would be well worth the money you spent

 

[Jay Delo]

was he using an iPod or mp3?

 

[HeatFan12]

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Im not sure which headphone to get and not sure if a amp would do the headphones good, help please!

 
 
The HFI-580 is a good all-rounder headphone.  It is efficient, as others have mentioned, but with an amp it tightens everything up with better impact.

 

[Jay Delo]

but would a cheap amp do a good job or do i have to lay down a hundred dollars

 

[HeatFan12]

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but would a cheap amp do a good job or do i have to lay down a hundred dollars

 
 
This is Head-Fi Jay.
 
You MUST spend a lot of money for great sound.  For the 580s, nothing under 1K would suffice....LOL...JK
 
Rules of Head-Fi- state a budget and go from there.  There are no cheap amps per se.  If your budget is about 60 beans a PA2V2 or E11 would be more than adequate.

 

[Jay Delo]

well rite now my budget is like 40 bucks but I'm gonna be saving up

 

[HeatFan12]

Nice... Are you familiar with the two I mentioned, or would you like the links?
 
Cheers

 

[Jay Delo]

i know about the e11 and i don't realy like the size of that and i will check out the other one

 

[Jay Delo]

the pa2v2 doesn't look very well built, I might just buy the fiio e5

 

[HeatFan12]

Fair enough.  But you must think a bit about your whole setup.  What is your source?  If it's an iDevice (iPod, iTouch, Nano, iPad, iPhone etc..) you will need an LOD (line-out dock) to get a clean signal and bypass the internal amp of the source.  You must look at your chain as a whole.

 

[Jay Delo]

ya it will be out of my iPod touch and i already know which lod i want