knowhatimean
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Well,I'm back on the fence again about how I feel about the Magni 3 .Interesting (genuinely) that you find the Magni 3 to be 'warm', I find it incredibly neutral with both my Sennheiser HD540 Ref1s and HifiMAN HE400S. Maybe it's a cable thing too, I use pure silver cables if I'm using the MusicStreamer II+ DAC as a source from the laptop, or an Audioquest Evergreen cable from the DAC of the Questyle QP1R. Maybe the HD650/HD6XX needs a slightly 'crisper' amp to compensate for the HD6...'s natural warmth? I will be fascinated to hear what my HD6XX sound like with my M3 when they arrive in March.
From what I've been reading about the Magni 2,here, it sounds like it might have been a better match for my needs;"more power" is not really something that many listeners using traditional Analog DACs with separate Headphone Amps need as the DAC output is completely sufficient regardless of whatever type headphone is going to be used. Calling 6dB a "Low gain" setting is a bit silly as far as I'm concerned....but the Magni 3 sounds very respectable with the limited amount of Volume control adjustment (8:30 ~ 9 o'Clock setting) available.... So I'm seeing how patient I can be with making "Micro Incremental" adjustments on a Analog volume control.
"Warm, rolled off Analog Sound" speaks "Volumes" to myself. (You really don't want to know how "Artificially boosted" most Digital sounds to me.... calling it Neutral is pretty hilarious to "this old fart") . It's most Source Material people choose to listen to that's "Broken" not the Messenger.