swarthy
100+ Head-Fier
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Well man, there are musicians who do this every day of their lives and I think they are fine. Many now use protection but that doesn't save their fans. So you never been to a concert lol? Where 130dB is not unknown and for periods of maybe two hours straight hahahaha. Don't worry man, I know when to step back. I don't know what else to tell you. I have tested many amps with these and the three outlines before extensively. My Bloat has damn near 'better' parts than the Denon but is obviously of much much lesser design.
No hundred dollar gumbox headphone amp is going to push a nice Denon if you go mass or Krell if you go custom or anything beyond that, etc.
As I said people can continue to think that pushing 90dB is what decides a good amp but that is beyond ridiculous because good amps push 130dB and do it clean where that other amp is barely doing 90dB clean with zero headroom. 90dB is nothing and most people listen to music for long periods of time at those levels or even 100dB without killing themselves. But if that is all you are going to use it for then great that works. But hearing damage and what not I listen to music to be involved in it every once in a while and that means loud volume. The bass in my Bloat is pathetic on these btw and that thing costed 140 with the nice array of caps and the default DACs and amps and which were already of high quality. Of course it is just a pocket portable USB amp.
I think the thing with small amps is they simply cannot control the bass very well in my experience but as I said I am sure somebody put together some exceptional 'gumbox' that would surprise the hell out of me though I doubt it's cheap.
If you are talking about 400 dollar plus portables or the such then that is a way different story.
No hundred dollar gumbox headphone amp is going to push a nice Denon if you go mass or Krell if you go custom or anything beyond that, etc.
As I said people can continue to think that pushing 90dB is what decides a good amp but that is beyond ridiculous because good amps push 130dB and do it clean where that other amp is barely doing 90dB clean with zero headroom. 90dB is nothing and most people listen to music for long periods of time at those levels or even 100dB without killing themselves. But if that is all you are going to use it for then great that works. But hearing damage and what not I listen to music to be involved in it every once in a while and that means loud volume. The bass in my Bloat is pathetic on these btw and that thing costed 140 with the nice array of caps and the default DACs and amps and which were already of high quality. Of course it is just a pocket portable USB amp.
I think the thing with small amps is they simply cannot control the bass very well in my experience but as I said I am sure somebody put together some exceptional 'gumbox' that would surprise the hell out of me though I doubt it's cheap.
If you are talking about 400 dollar plus portables or the such then that is a way different story.