Stereo Skunk
Previously known as bledwhite409
there is a 'state space' for headphones and amplifiers.
for a given headphone I can only think of it varying in driver excursion. fully flexed one way, dead center. fully flexed the other way and everything in between. My question is how does this change the impedance, inductance and capacitance of the headphone? What is 'worst case scenario'? Then you have different types of headphones varying in nominal impedance and sensitivity. I imagine hardest tod rive would be low sensitivity and either very low or very high impedance.
What i am trying to understand better is when a headphone "demands" the most of an amplifier, and in what way.
likewise, amplifiers have a state space defined by power, load impedance, frequency. Of course typical distortion specs (thd,imd,noise) will vary across these. I'm not as interested in these, but rather power, current and voltage bandwidth across these varying parameters, and how these degrade a DC signal into the rectified AC from which it is made.
What I'm asking is which amplifier has the beefiest power supply, and does this necessarily mean high power? (couldn't an amplifier have an over-sized capacitor bank? and would this be desirable?)
for a given headphone I can only think of it varying in driver excursion. fully flexed one way, dead center. fully flexed the other way and everything in between. My question is how does this change the impedance, inductance and capacitance of the headphone? What is 'worst case scenario'? Then you have different types of headphones varying in nominal impedance and sensitivity. I imagine hardest tod rive would be low sensitivity and either very low or very high impedance.
What i am trying to understand better is when a headphone "demands" the most of an amplifier, and in what way.
likewise, amplifiers have a state space defined by power, load impedance, frequency. Of course typical distortion specs (thd,imd,noise) will vary across these. I'm not as interested in these, but rather power, current and voltage bandwidth across these varying parameters, and how these degrade a DC signal into the rectified AC from which it is made.
What I'm asking is which amplifier has the beefiest power supply, and does this necessarily mean high power? (couldn't an amplifier have an over-sized capacitor bank? and would this be desirable?)