rnd
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My understanding is Grados and such need more current to maintain control and get all they are capable of - in particular with bass. Is this not true? I notice when I use an amp and set the volume high with the source low on the computer, the bass gets tighter and more pronounced in the very low registers. (It creates other problems because I'm amping an amped signal which is one of the reasons I'm looking for something like this) If this is true then I'm thinking a gain of 10 would mean I'd be using little current when the volume is at a reasonable listening level. Again I'm no expert with electronics so please forgive me if I'm misunderstanding this.
My headphones sound wonderful directly out of my source but I can tell there is more they can do if I could give them more current and avoid the problems with amping the amped signal I'm getting.
Originally Posted by HiFlight /img/forum/go_quote.gif I would not be at all concerned with the gain of the D1. I have found the factory gain setting to be perfectly adequate for all the phones I have tried, from the very efficient to very inefficient, from high-impedance to low-impedance. |
My understanding is Grados and such need more current to maintain control and get all they are capable of - in particular with bass. Is this not true? I notice when I use an amp and set the volume high with the source low on the computer, the bass gets tighter and more pronounced in the very low registers. (It creates other problems because I'm amping an amped signal which is one of the reasons I'm looking for something like this) If this is true then I'm thinking a gain of 10 would mean I'd be using little current when the volume is at a reasonable listening level. Again I'm no expert with electronics so please forgive me if I'm misunderstanding this.
My headphones sound wonderful directly out of my source but I can tell there is more they can do if I could give them more current and avoid the problems with amping the amped signal I'm getting.