Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Registered members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Audio and Video Talk
Headphones
Recommend a good inexpensive amp for the Hifiman 4XX?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Help Support AVForums:
This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.
Message
<blockquote data-quote="user 1447" data-source="post: 952721" data-attributes="member: 1447"><p>actually with the stronger amps it sounds decent enough - but with the lower powered amps it just all falls flat - there is no way that this headphone will work directly with any cellphone at all - the dragonfly red probably had more power than the K3 and Fiio BTR3 that i have for portable usage - and even the uDSD still falls short since that uses the 3.5mm jack while the K3 actually also used the balanced and this was still nowhere near enough to drive the headphones to my satisfaction</p><p></p><p>my other friends have some better DAC/AMPs than i do and even with the Nuprime the headphone works fine up to a point (but the Nuprime doesnt feature a 2.5mm balanced out) - so its the 3,5mm single ended output which is why if you lift the levels pretty high it does distort a wee bit - keep the volume levels sane and its okay - far better than those portable amps </p><p></p><p>i dont think that theres anything wrong with the headphones because in balanced mode it is just very slightly softer than the HD800 with the fiio M9 DAP but the volume has to be higher than 80 for either of those to sound just about bearable but it still isn't anywhere near where i would like </p><p></p><p>the only conclusion that i can draw is that for someone like me who likes a bit of volume so that the sound can become more alive i reckon i need an amp that is going to give substantial oomph </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>we can work a plan on this - i can spend the R99 to send it to you via postnet if you can spend the R99 to send it back to me .... sound fair?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="user 1447, post: 952721, member: 1447"] actually with the stronger amps it sounds decent enough - but with the lower powered amps it just all falls flat - there is no way that this headphone will work directly with any cellphone at all - the dragonfly red probably had more power than the K3 and Fiio BTR3 that i have for portable usage - and even the uDSD still falls short since that uses the 3.5mm jack while the K3 actually also used the balanced and this was still nowhere near enough to drive the headphones to my satisfaction my other friends have some better DAC/AMPs than i do and even with the Nuprime the headphone works fine up to a point (but the Nuprime doesnt feature a 2.5mm balanced out) - so its the 3,5mm single ended output which is why if you lift the levels pretty high it does distort a wee bit - keep the volume levels sane and its okay - far better than those portable amps i dont think that theres anything wrong with the headphones because in balanced mode it is just very slightly softer than the HD800 with the fiio M9 DAP but the volume has to be higher than 80 for either of those to sound just about bearable but it still isn't anywhere near where i would like the only conclusion that i can draw is that for someone like me who likes a bit of volume so that the sound can become more alive i reckon i need an amp that is going to give substantial oomph we can work a plan on this - i can spend the R99 to send it to you via postnet if you can spend the R99 to send it back to me .... sound fair? [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Audio and Video Talk
Headphones
Recommend a good inexpensive amp for the Hifiman 4XX?
Top