Rebel, the sound that I'm hearing w/o jumpers isn't exactly a hiss. It's more like the sound of a light bulb being on.
My testing was with the A100 and a home stereo setup and with both the t50rp and 58x.
Cans into Home stereo:
Monster HKS 3500 MKII powercenter, 2 THX preamps then finally going into a Denon AVR4802. With everything on and keeping my headphones on my head, then plugging into the headphone out of the AVR, there is zero distinguishable sound difference. It's pitch black. All music sounds like it's coming from absolute darkness.
Cans into A100:
I went as far as to plug the emo into the monster powercenter just to assure clean power. Same routine. The room is also very, very quiet but there is a slight ambient static.
This type of noise gets drowned out when audio is coming through for the most part but, after all it is there and becomes part of the sound you are hearing.
Yessss, the IEmatch is a pricey figure. I would love to pickup something cheaper, but hopefully it works.
My testing was with the A100 and a home stereo setup and with both the t50rp and 58x.
Cans into Home stereo:
Monster HKS 3500 MKII powercenter, 2 THX preamps then finally going into a Denon AVR4802. With everything on and keeping my headphones on my head, then plugging into the headphone out of the AVR, there is zero distinguishable sound difference. It's pitch black. All music sounds like it's coming from absolute darkness.
Cans into A100:
I went as far as to plug the emo into the monster powercenter just to assure clean power. Same routine. The room is also very, very quiet but there is a slight ambient static.
This type of noise gets drowned out when audio is coming through for the most part but, after all it is there and becomes part of the sound you are hearing.
Yessss, the IEmatch is a pricey figure. I would love to pickup something cheaper, but hopefully it works.