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Do your headphones REALLY perform much better with more expensive DAC/AMP? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by FrankieWilde11@alien.top to c/headphones@hi-fi.community
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I have the Sennheiser HD600, Neumann NDH-30, Audeze LCD-X.

I use these with my SSL2 hp out, and with Qudelix 5K.

I spoke to someone about my impressions and his first question was: which dac/amp? and when I told, he just winked.

So my question is: is the difference this obvious with a more expensive dac/amp combo? Should I spend another 6-800 euro to get one? Do your headphones open up/perform that much better?

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[–] Regular-Cheetah-8095@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you please describe to me the mechanisms within the amp and DAC that resulted in in the resounding quality, and how they do it, maybe where I could see it measured, how an amp impacts the quality of the audio and then how a DAC does in terms of what they do to the audio and not like “makes it sound like glitter”

I am trying to learn about how sound works and how amps and DACs work and you sound like you really know like how they work inside and what they do and don’t do

I want to resound, please help

[–] Educational_Clue935@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

For measurements, you're asking in the wrong place. If I understood you correctly, you're asking for a differentiation between what amps do versus what dacs do?