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Clickbaitllama t1_iuhx0gj wrote

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

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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