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My Magni had a volume balance issue as well. Only comes to light when the amp is warm. May be a weak solder. Mine went back to Schiit.
My Magni had a volume balance issue as well. Only comes to light when the amp is warm. May be a weak solder. Mine went back to Schiit.
If you ain’t into engineering, you can probably skip this section. But it’s important. All other amps in this price range use op-amps for gain. Not Magni.
Don't these 600 ohm AKGs have a sensitivity of about 91 dB SPL @ 1 Vrms?
I seriously wonder why Schiit says this amp is fine to drive IEMs. Many on-/over-ear headphones easily reach 115 dB SPL, some in-ears over 130.
This makes the usable volume control range quite small and the channel imbalance probably quite big.
:/
Anyone using this amp with ~30 ohm headphones?
Don't these 600 ohm AKG's have a sensitivity of about 91 dB SPL @ 1 Vrms?
I seriously wonder why Schiit says this amp is fine to drive IEMs. Many on-/over-ear headphones easily reach 115 dB SPL, some in-ears over 130.
This makes the usable volume control range quite small and the channel imbalance probably quite big.
:/
Anyone using this amp with ~30 ohm headphones?
Simple, it has such a low noise floor that you should be able to feed it with a really low signal and still get a clean output. Even turned all the way up with my Grados (nothing playing at the time obviously) it's dead silent.
When I get my 4.As I intend to try out the M&M combo with them with the computer probably set around 5% volume. Should work pretty well (and if it doesn't then you'll hear it here).
That's not a solution though, more like a workaround.
5% is like -50 dB on my computer, so you get a performance similar to a ~13 bit DAC.
That's not a solution though, more like a workaround.
5% is like -50 dB on my computer, so you get a performance similar to a ~13 bit DAC.
Who would want to buy these for a $1.5k headphone (namely the HD800's), completely stupid not to mention the Magni's sound like they have a more brighter sound sig. Even for those looking for a cheaper alternative.
Well, the example seems to assume that the DAC is perfect and reaches a dynamic range of 144 dB.
Most 24 bit DACs don't even reach 120 dB tough. If you attenuate the signal (read: push it into the noise floor) by roughly 50 dB... (assuming 5% = -50 dB).
Hey people, i'm wondering, how would Modi fare with a E11?
And is the Modi a better DAC than E10?
That's not a solution though, more like a workaround.
5% is like -50 dB on my computer, so you get a performance similar to a ~13 bit DAC.
But %25 should give you the same 16 bit signal as before, assuming a 16bit file. And to be honest, that's plenty of cutdown. 5% is just silly. You could also put a decibel lowering insert into it. Its just a male > female rca plug with a resistor in the middle. They sell them on parts express and other sites. In other words, it does the same thing putting a shunt resistor in the potentiometer. The only "zero loss" way of doing it would be to decrease the gain, and I like a 100 dollar amp that can drive orthos and 600ohm beasts more than having yet another small but power limited affordable amplifier. There's lots of those. But this is the 1st $100 amp i've heard someone say will drive the AKG sextets or he500's well.
Are there any frequency response graphs of the Magni floating around? I haven't found any..
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