Headphone Heights

Posted by genungo (A) on January 03, 2013 at 17:11:15

In Reply to: RE: Beyerdynamics Cans for Christmas - Question posted by Drew769 on January 02, 2013 at 13:16:42

High quality, dedicated headphone amps can make the biggest difference(s) if you have headphones that are exceptionally weird (earspeakers, electrostatics, etc...), or are exceptionally difficult to drive for some other reason. Your Beyer headphones are not known for being that difficult to drive. However, different headphone amps sometimes provide different types of tonal balances ("sonic character"). In other words, some amps will seem like a more synergistic match within your system than others will. The most dramatic difference for me, amplification-wise, was when I switched to balanced drive.

Edits: 01/03/13   01/05/13