abitdeef
Formerly known as ihatepopupads
Headphoneus Supremus
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So what's the difference / advantage and disadvantage of gain L/H?
Just as you would think, if you're powering easy to drive iems and such you can use low gain and save a bit of juice.
If you need more power you can enable high gain. Now I always enable high gain myself because even at percieved same volume levels you can experience a bit of dynamics boost- among other benefits.
Simple from having more headroom and the cans iems being driven a bit more efficiently at the same volume level.
Now, as I stated before volume matching without measuring output is very hard to do accurately and sometimes when trying to match volume in high gain mode to the relative volume you used in low gain mode- well a lot of times you are feeding you cans/iems a bit more current and low and behold they sound better
When I'm serious and want to check outputs I use a multimeter to match outputs, to make sure they're the same. Many times I've thought- man this new blank sounds better, only to check the output and find I had it higher than dap b.
Clean efficent power really helps sound out, so I always use high gain and adjust down.
And yes Hip hop scribe is right, high gain usually brings more noise. Although a lot of stuff has such good snr and thd+n you can get away with using high gain.
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