How do conversions work for amp specs

Equipment / Electronics / Gear / Accessories Headphone Amps
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Hey everyone, hope I’m doing this right.
Anyway, I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as I couldn’t find anything on here previously about this topic.
Quite often when looking at amps the site will only list their output at 16 or 32 ohms so I was wondering if there is a way to convert this output to a different ohm headphone. Ok it won’t be too accurate because there are other factors but it would be useful to have as a rough guide of whether an amp that only lists output at 16 ohms will perform well enough at say, 300 ohms.
Idk if this is possible or if I’m just being dumb but it seems to me that there should be a way to do this.

Ask me any questions if you don’t understand my question. Staff if I did this wrong pls tell me what I should do instead no clue what I’m doing lol
Ty in advance
Also might not reply for a bit going to do the slep

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The output can be biased towards a specific impedance so for example they could have peak output at 16 ohm or 50 ohm. Just depends how it’s built.

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There is seat-of-pants level estimates one could make. Nothing more.

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How can one tell if an amp can run headphones of a higher impedance than is listed then
Like if I had some 300 ohm headphones and the amp is only listed at 32 how could i tell if it can run them

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So you mean like the output could be higher at 50 ohms than it is at 16 amp to amp?

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Yeah some amps have their peak output at higher impedance and some at lower.

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Generally, ask the community which amps pair well with said headphones. They will all “run” them but some will sound like shit while others won’t.

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