Y’all who are asking about what amps can or cannot power these well enough on the single-ended connection might consider reading my post from the other day about that. They work just fine on the THX 789 and similar amps.
Here are my thoughts on this headphone. I wrote this as a review for my own website, so I am posting it here and it’s written that way, so forgive some of the stuff most people here already know.
I bought the Beyerdynamic DT880 600Ω and the Emotiva BasX A-100 speaker amp a few months ago to find out for myself what all the fuss was about from ZeosPantera, an audio reviewer I enjoy following on YouTube.
I have two pair of DT880’s, a 250Ω and a 600Ω version. I’m going to be talking about the 600…
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This morning I did another test using the Schiit Jotunheim on high gain. I was too tired last night to turn on my Windows PC or get behind the desk again to swap some cables around.
The differences in this test compared to the other three amps are I am using the Schiit multibit DAC module inside the Jotunheim and while playing the same tracks as yesterday, they are on my Windows box and through Foobar.
Still looking at the same things as before, noise floor and power here. With the Jotunheim …
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