[kggibbs]

How does Magni 3 work with high impedance headphones like HD650 ? Is it a good pairing

 

[JamminVMI]

How does Magni 3 work with high impedance headphones like HD650 ? Is it a good pairing

For me & my HD6xx, U’m very happy. The Magni 3 has a achiit ton more power than its predecessor, and sounds great with these cans in my opinion. Gets even better with a Loki in the chain...

 

[Indrajit]

It needs to be connected.

Thanks.
I can see that the Magni 3 works only via electricity(ac). The problem is that the area in which I live suffers from voltage fluctuations constantly. The voltage at times drops to 85-90 V several times in the day. Even a stabilizer can't rectify this issue as the tubelights keep getting slightly dim as the voltage fluctuates. With the stated problem of constant voltage drop( at times to 90 V) is it fine to get a Schiit Magni 3 that doesn't work independently as other portable Fiio amps do? I want to know if the Magni 3 could suffer sonically with such voltage fluctuations. I only care about sound quality and wanna use the Magni 3 only as an amplifier with my Fiio X5iii. Anybody any insight?

 

[displayname]

Thanks.
I can see that the Magni 3 works only via electricity(ac). The problem is that the area in which I live suffers from voltage fluctuations constantly. The voltage at times drops to 85-90 V several times in the day. Even a stabilizer can't rectify this issue as the tubelights keep getting slightly dim as the voltage fluctuates. With the stated problem of constant voltage drop( at times to 90 V) is it fine to get a Schiit Magni 3 that doesn't work independently as other portable Fiio amps do? I want to know if the Magni 3 could suffer sonically with such voltage fluctuations. I only care about sound quality and wanna use the Magni 3 only as an amplifier with my Fiio X5iii. Anybody any insight?

I don't know if the Magni will be effected by the voltage swings, but it might. You might need to just try it to find out. Other options would be to stick with battery powered units, or if you really want to resolve the problem in general, look at power regenerators.

 

[Indrajit]

I don't know if the Magni will be effected by the voltage swings, but it might. You might need to just try it to find out. Other options would be to stick with battery powered units, or if you really want to resolve the problem in general, look at power regenerators.

Thanks. Maybe I will look at Fiio amps

 

[riffrafff]

Maybe plug it into a small UPS; most have some kind of line conditioning built into them.

 

[dwinnert]

I had issues with a scratchy pot for a little while and now it is dead silent. For me at least, it seems just using it clears it up.

 

[KaiFi]

I had issues with a scratchy pot for a little while and now it is dead silent. For me at least, it seems just using it clears it up.

Lucky. Pot still crackles at 9-10 o'clock. The only negative to this amp for me. It's excellent in every other way.

 

[tafens]

How does Magni 3 work with high impedance headphones like HD650 ? Is it a good pairing

Yes, it works great (using HD6XX, the Massdrop HD650 equivalent).

 

[tafens]

Lucky. Pot still crackles at 9-10 o'clock. The only negative to this amp for me. It's excellent in every other way.

Try (with no music/sound on) to move the pot from min to max and back again 10-15 times. Might clear it up.

 

[lantian]

Thanks. Maybe I will look at Fiio amps

Would recommend against any of fiio's own amp's, neither of them are even close to anything schiit makes. I would much rather suggest getting a car battery and transformer rather than a battery powered amp from fiio, as a portable unit aune b1s probably is the closest thing to magni quality for double the price.

 

[KaiFi]

Try (with no music/sound on) to move the pot from min to max and back again 10-15 times. Might clear it up.

Wow. I can't believe that worked! I've had this thing for 6 months and never thought to try that. I'm dumb

 

[SomeTechNoob]

Over time it'll get scratchy again. For some reason it's just characteristic of the lower end schiit pot/volume knobs. Weirdly enough every Fulla 2 I've had has this issue but my Magni 2 is dead silent.

If doing full volume sweeps doesn't work, just pick up some electrical contact cleaner(NO RESIDUE ONES), take off the knob, spray the pot, and do a few sweeps. Repeat until pot is silent.

 

[KaiFi]

I have a Magni 2 as well and it's silent. Kinda weird that they got it right on that one but not on the other models...

 

[Gothamm]

Guys, I just got my magni 3 and pairing it with my HD6xx I am very underwhelmed to the point I think there may be an issue with the amp. I am running it straight out of my macbook pro (no dac) with rca adaptor plugs. On high gain I have to crank it all the way to 3 o clock before i get decently loud sound.

Is it an issue with me not having a dac?