Kendoji
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FWIW I was using my Leckerton with my HE-500 a lot before I got my Violectric stack and it sounded great.
This is a good discussion of driving orthos, and so is this one.
The summary:
Dynamic driver impedance fluctuates with frequency.
Orthodynamic driver impedance does not, and there's nothing needing damping.
Amplifier output impedance isn't a big deal when driving orthos, and high current can do wonders for them.
This does not necessarily apply in the same way to other types of drivers: Dynamic, balanced armature, and so on. Each has their own idiosyncrasies, and some are far more likely to benefit from high damping factors.
FWIW I was using my Leckerton with my HE-500 a lot before I got my Violectric stack and it sounded great.
That's a really intriguing setup, Bill-P. After your previous post about optical I went out and bought an optical cable to work with my iMac, and while I haven't plugged the USB back in yet for comparison, I think this is the best sound I've heard from my rig. It's definitely fuller bodied than using the line out from my iPhone, but it keeps the vocals and mids where I like them. I find with the USB I get more body in the sound, but sometimes I have to turn up the volume more than I like to get the vocal presence I want. I also feel so far that the optical feed gives more definition to the bass and low percussion.
Your setup suggests that a USB digital converted to optical is better than the USB implementation built into the Leckerton. Interesting, and it looks like a more affordable and portable rig than adding a CLAS to my collection. Why does everything I own have to be made by Apple?
I have one question before making the decision to buy a UHA-6S MKII.
Can I use the UHA-6S MKII headphone output as a line out for other amps? I want to connect it to my speaker amp but I'm worried that the sound quality will be degraded from double amping.
should i connect this amp (to the PC) with USB or Optical? or both are the same?
should i connect this amp (to the PC) with USB or Optical? or both are the same?