hpk
New Head-Fier
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I am in the process of shopping for a set of headphones. I will be driving the units with a Rotel RC-995 preamp that has a headphone jack with 150 ohm impedance. My understanding of impedance matching is that the driver and load must be as closely matched as possible to acheive maximum power transfer.
I was in a high end shop lately that told me that I should be considereing as a rule of thumb headphones that are up to half the impedance of the driver, in my case 75 ohms maximum.
Anyone have any comments or suggestions on a specific headphone with impedance charateristics that would be suitable in my case? I am not considering a separate headphone amp at this point.
I was in a high end shop lately that told me that I should be considereing as a rule of thumb headphones that are up to half the impedance of the driver, in my case 75 ohms maximum.
Anyone have any comments or suggestions on a specific headphone with impedance charateristics that would be suitable in my case? I am not considering a separate headphone amp at this point.