[Edwood]

You guys have to keep in mind that many many amps are capable of driving the K1000's to decent amplification with no clipping. Even a lowly Pimeta is capable, but they are just barely capable, and the K1000's can sound a bit anemic.

-Ed

 

[akwok]

Well we'll see when I get the K3000s, whether the GS-1 is a good match or not .

 

[Veto]

I agree with Edwood.
The grace amp can drive the K1000 but a tube amp (RKVII) does it much better and gives it something extra.
Out of a SSamp I don't like them a all.

Also, if you do get a K1000 (instead of the K3000) go for a rewire.
I recable mine 3 times and now I'm content with them. In the end I just
solderen my 'Stephan Audioart' extension cable to the drivers (with PCB) and
that got me to where I wanted them to go.

Veto

 

[Jazper]

The m3 can drive the K1000s, so long as you set it to 30v

 

[saint.panda]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Edwood You guys have to keep in mind that many many amps are capable of driving the K1000's to decent amplification with no clipping. Even a lowly Pimeta is capable, but they are just barely capable, and the K1000's can sound a bit anemic. -Ed

That's really true. I've driven my AKG K1000 with a Headphile cable (6.3mm headphone plug) from various headphone amps and while most of them gave out enough volume, the sound was not necessarily something to be amazed about. Syngery is also a issue, I wasn't really fond of the Dynamight(=balanced Dynahi) + AKG K1000 combination for instance.

You should just ask Headamp whether the GS-1 can drive them or not.

 

[Mikhail]

The K1000's are actually rated at 1 Watt maximum. But, since this is at 120 ohms, and given that they're 74db/mw, they require a lot of voltage swing to sound good. You really only need about 0.350 W to get the K1000's to fairly loud levels, but remember that maximum voltage swing is what we need (~10 volts at 120 ohms). Most headphone amps cannot swing it.

The K1000's were designed to be driven by power amps. Most power amps have 8 ohm or 16 ohm taps. This means that at these low impedances you would need much more power when translated into the 120 ohm load that the power amp sees, versus the normal 8 ohms of speakers. The power amp has to swing more voltage to deal with the high impedance that the K1000's present.