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Awesome headphones. Been enjoying the ds version quite a bit the last few days. They definitely punch above their price range.
Being insensitive, high impedance planars they are a bit picky as to which amps pair well. A minimum of 20 vrms is generally recommended.
Yeah I bought a A70 pro for this reason. Pairing them with my element III and using it as a dac.
If this won’t work I guess I’ll have to get a D70 or E50 to pair with it to get the whole power
Ah, nice to see you on here! It sucks having so little info about this headphone for sure.
You can even just get something like a d30 pro since dacs above a few dollars only give you more features not greater performance.
I have a d30 pro - great dac. Looking over the specs briefly though, it appears to put out just 4 Vrms, which might not be a great fit in this scenario. Finding a hotter dac may work better plus having a built-in pre-amp / better volume control may also give more options later on.
It's potentially tricky because of the voltage and gain requirements. For example, some report even the Bliss with 12 Watts at 32 Ohms and Spring 3 (5.8 vrms) sounds soft and lacks headroom partially due to insufficient gain (amp lacks a high gain mode), which my ears tend to agree with.
Luckily though, my dac has a pre-amp putting out a max 11.6 vrms, which the Bliss hungrily accepts, providing a much different experience - greater dynamics, better low end etc. A number of Tungsten owners report wildy varying impressions listening to the same amps (Oor, CA3, Mjolnir 3). I'm guessing this is likely due to differences in the input voltage received from their dacs.