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<blockquote data-quote="gbyleveldt" data-source="post: 304769" data-attributes="member: 122"><p>Big, big difference. In your Rotel, you have large resistors bringing down the amount of power that will be fed into your headphones. This large resistance sitting in line with the output of your amplifier ultimately affect the capability of your amplifier to control the transducer in your headphones. If the transducers have weird impedance curves across their frequency response you've essentially changes the way these will sound because of the resistors in line with them - especially in the case of low impedance cans.</p><p></p><p>In a nutshell...</p><p></p><p>If you feel like DIY, go build yourself a SOTA - I've been spending a lot of time with one the last few days and I'm enjoying it immensely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gbyleveldt, post: 304769, member: 122"] Big, big difference. In your Rotel, you have large resistors bringing down the amount of power that will be fed into your headphones. This large resistance sitting in line with the output of your amplifier ultimately affect the capability of your amplifier to control the transducer in your headphones. If the transducers have weird impedance curves across their frequency response you've essentially changes the way these will sound because of the resistors in line with them - especially in the case of low impedance cans. In a nutshell... If you feel like DIY, go build yourself a SOTA - I've been spending a lot of time with one the last few days and I'm enjoying it immensely. [/QUOTE]
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