Good use of a Little Dot?

[addylo]

I'm currently running the following setup at the office:

Asus Eee Netbook
Tons of FLAC on a WD Passport HD
JRiver Media Center 22
Dragonfly 1.2
Meze 99 Classics

This is working pretty well but I'm considering replacing the Dragonfly with a Little Dot MK III. Would this be a good setup for the Little Dot or would the LD be overkill?

 

[ProtegeManiac]

The Little Dot MkIII is an OTL amplifier. You'd put less power at low impedance vs the Dragonfly, and it has a very high output impedance. You have higher THD and without all the complete data you'd have to listen to find out whether it makes your low impedance headphone sound like tin cans or give Norah Jones sinusitis.

 

[cossix]

The Little Dot MkIII is an OTL amplifier. You'd put less power at low impedance vs the Dragonfly, and it has a very high output impedance. You have higher THD and without all the complete data you'd have to listen to find out whether it makes your low impedance headphone sound like tin cans or give Norah Jones sinusitis.

Haha that's beautiful. I think you'd be better suited by a solid state dac/amp

 

[buke9]

Yes the LD probably not a good choice as the Meze are super easy to drive but do scale a bit. One thing I would look into is a EQ app. I'm not a big eq user but did try it on the Meze 99's and boy it made them sound very good. Just something to look at.

 

[addylo]

Cute, Maniac. Not very helpful but cute. It was obvious from my question that I'm not an audiogeek but I get the gist of your post.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

Cute, Maniac. Not very helpful but cute. It was obvious from my question that I'm not an audiogeek but I get the gist of your post.

The whole point of it was precisely that you weren't an "audiogeek." If I put that down as,

"the high output impedance of an Output Transformerless amplifier like the Little Dot MkII driving a low impedance load will reduce damping factor considerably, altering the sound of the headphone in one of two general ways that we cannot predict without all the relevant data on both the amp and headphone that you can't find in reviews, so practically the only way to know what it will do and by how much is to get them and try, and it is hard to tell whether you'd like the result...also you get less power at the same level of total harmonic distortion - already higher on a low cost output transformerless amplifier - so you're basically going farther from the source material in more ways than one,"

would you have understood the gist of it when phrased that way?

Obviously contrasting a tin can to having to something you can simulate by pinching your nostrils is easier to visualize (audioize?).