plainsong
Headphoneus Supremus: Untie!
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It's big, but punchy. And the sound is colored, but it's not like say a cheap pair of closed headphones where it's so dark and muddy that it's awful. No, not at all. In fact the tad bit of color sounds very nice, very clean. I did hear some static while idle at high gain near the top of the volume dial. This was while using 600ohm Beyers to try to listen to the amp builder's panel at headfest.
So even with 600ohm Beyers, you don't usually have to crank it THAT much, it's just that the audio was poor. That same volume with the same headphones hurts when you fire up iTunes. Ask me how I know.
Once I got below that top end of the dial, the noise floor likewise went away. I'm also wondering if it was computer noise, because it increased depending on what the macbook was doing. At any rate, you have to be at the max of the volume dial at high gain to get that effect. And that's too loud for 600ohm cans (mostly, unless your watching something with bad volume).
So even with 600ohm Beyers, you don't usually have to crank it THAT much, it's just that the audio was poor. That same volume with the same headphones hurts when you fire up iTunes. Ask me how I know.
Once I got below that top end of the dial, the noise floor likewise went away. I'm also wondering if it was computer noise, because it increased depending on what the macbook was doing. At any rate, you have to be at the max of the volume dial at high gain to get that effect. And that's too loud for 600ohm cans (mostly, unless your watching something with bad volume).
