[Bassheadspl]

Hello headfiers, i have an issue with my Sony XB500 headphones. I notice that when i crank up the volume on the fiio e11 very high, when the bass gets to a point when it becomes subwoofer crazy, i hear clipping sound from the drivers. I hear the clipping sound on the right driver first and when i increase the volume even more, the other starts to do it. I have noticed that i can only hear the clipping sound from bass frequencies. What i can identify is if the clipping sound is the drivers that can't take the bass, or is it the fiio e11 amplifier that delivers a clipping signal at high volume levels?
 
So what do you think and if you use the same amp (fiio e11) or a similar one, do you experience clipping sound on high bassy volume levels?

 

[skamp]

NwAvGuy said this about the E11:

The E11 has very odd overload/clipping behavior into 32 ohm and lower impedance loads

Google "nwavguy e11" for the full review (I'm not allowed to link to his blog directly).

 

[Bassheadspl]

But the XB500's have a ohm impedance of 40ohms, would it still be effected by the overload clipping behavior from the fiio e11 amp?
 

 

[skamp]

Ah, I wrongly assumed it was lower than that (the XB700s, which I own, are 24Ω). I don't know, sorry.

 

[davidsh]

Could really be both. But if you make either the driver or the map clip, I think you might be listening a bit too loud