Mr.Pants
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i plan on getting a Zen Micro sometime soon here, and wanted to know how well the KSC-75's will be driven by it, as i dont plan on getting an amp
Originally Posted by Mr.Pants i plan on getting a Zen Micro sometime soon here, and wanted to know how well the KSC-75's will be driven by it, as i dont plan on getting an amp |
Originally Posted by Mr.Pants i plan on getting a Zen Micro sometime soon here, and wanted to know how well the KSC-75's will be driven by it, as i dont plan on getting an amp |
Originally Posted by citroeniste Unless you buy an amp that offers HRTF processing, the KSC-75's will not see much improvement from an amp. Amps only help when you've got particularly current hungry, high-impedance headphones (e.g. Senn 580/600/650) or extremely low impedance. |
Originally Posted by citroeniste Unless you buy an amp that offers HRTF processing, the KSC-75's will not see much improvement from an amp. Amps only help when you've got particularly current hungry, high-impedance headphones (e.g. Senn 580/600/650) or extremely low impedance. |
Originally Posted by citroeniste Everyone who thinks these things improve with "just an amp" (i.e. no HRTF compensation) needs to do a level-matched blind test. What you will find upon doing so is that your current opinions are in fact unsupportable unless the equipment you are using has a truly anemic headphone jack. Anything that has at least as high quality as a 4G iPod will be indistinguishable from any nonbroken (flat FR, low distortion, etc.) dedicated headphone amp lacking HRTF compensation, or with said compensation turned off. Obviously, an HRTF compensation circuit changes the game quite a bit.... |
Originally Posted by citroeniste Everyone who thinks these things improve with "just an amp" (i.e. no HRTF compensation) needs to do a level-matched blind test. What you will find upon doing so is that your current opinions are in fact unsupportable unless the equipment you are using has a truly anemic headphone jack. Anything that has at least as high quality as a 4G iPod will be indistinguishable from any nonbroken (flat FR, low distortion, etc.) dedicated headphone amp lacking HRTF compensation, or with said compensation turned off. Obviously, an HRTF compensation circuit changes the game quite a bit.... |
Originally Posted by citroeniste Everyone who thinks these things improve with "just an amp" (i.e. no HRTF compensation) needs to do a level-matched blind test. What you will find upon doing so is that your current opinions are in fact unsupportable unless the equipment you are using has a truly anemic headphone jack. Anything that has at least as high quality as a 4G iPod will be indistinguishable from any nonbroken (flat FR, low distortion, etc.) dedicated headphone amp lacking HRTF compensation, or with said compensation turned off. Obviously, an HRTF compensation circuit changes the game quite a bit.... |