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Clickbaitllama t1_iuhqdvc wrote

Reply to comment by cirrusblau in When you bought an audiophile headphone for the first time but it doesn't sound that good by GLikesSteak

You do know that any sound output has a buikd in amp right?

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GLikesSteak OP t1_iuhuh48 wrote

Doesn't mean it's good enough/powerful enough to drive power hungry headphones such as some planars. Most budget external DAC amps nowadays are still better that those that are built into the laptop/phone/desktop.

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Clickbaitllama t1_iuhx0gj wrote

I’m just going to say this. If your headphone gets loud enough on a source, with some headroom, then any amp upgrade will not make the headphone sound better (or better enough that the upgrade would make you like it more).

Saying that a headphone that sounds mediocre can be fixed by an amp when the problem isn’t the volume makes no sense when all modern amps are made to be linear.

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Jackstraw335 t1_iuie5cd wrote

Impedence ≠ SPL

Loud enough ≠ enough power

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Clickbaitllama t1_iuiigsk wrote

nothing i said had anything to do with the fact that impedance and sensitivity are importantly distinct

and while we can argue about if a headphone loud enough with decent “to loud” headroom is still underpowered, you can’t in good faith say that if you dislike an headphone, a linear amp with more power would change the sound enough to sway that opinion

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