brianknewbie
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I recently contacted a manufacturer about getting one of their balanced amps for use with PS-1s that I am looking to get recabled as balanced and possibly my XLR'd Zu 650s.
I was surprised at the response:
"It's generally not recommended to use the balanced outputs direct from
a source to drive headphones. While most of them will provide enough
voltage, there is very little current output and the output impedance
is very high which rolls off the frequency response of the headphone. It
may be acceptable with high impedance phones but definitely not with
low impedance as sources aren't designed for that purpose."
I'm still very new to all this but I've heard nothing but good things about using the DAC1, Blockhead, Gilmore Reference etc to drive the 650s, PS-1s, etc.
Am I misunderstanding something here? Would really appreciate some clarification as apparently I have a lot to learn!
Thanks in advance,
Brian
I was surprised at the response:
"It's generally not recommended to use the balanced outputs direct from
a source to drive headphones. While most of them will provide enough
voltage, there is very little current output and the output impedance
is very high which rolls off the frequency response of the headphone. It
may be acceptable with high impedance phones but definitely not with
low impedance as sources aren't designed for that purpose."
I'm still very new to all this but I've heard nothing but good things about using the DAC1, Blockhead, Gilmore Reference etc to drive the 650s, PS-1s, etc.
Am I misunderstanding something here? Would really appreciate some clarification as apparently I have a lot to learn!
Thanks in advance,
Brian