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RE: Disagree, for the most part...

It really depends a lot on what that switch is doing.

In a solid state headphone amp, it's likely that the output impedance switch would be altering the amount of feedback in the amplifier in order to bring the output impedance down.

In a tube headphone amp, you could be toggling output transformer windings, or in fact also toggling feedback settings (or both).

It isn't surprising that you are hearing differences between these settings, but it is unlikely that it is the actual output impedance itself that is causing your preferences (unless you're driving a very low impedance load, like less than 600 Ohms).

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