Well the Asgard is 300 with the dac integrated and will push 300mw into your 600 ohms. The element is 400 and will push 165mw into them.
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Yeah that is a possibility as well.
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They both have really low noise floors.
But yeah as M0N Said you could revert to using the xduoo as a dac and just get a new amp. But I’m not sure if you’re too far in the hole money wise lol. You’d be looking at at least 150-200 for a decent stand alone amp I’d say.
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I did just get my tax return so I guess it’s time to get into this whole boogaloo.
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Uh oh! lol. Which route did you wanna go then? Return xduoo and new amp/dac combo or just a new amp and xduoo as dac?
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If I were you, For portability I’d probably want something more portable and simple like a btr5 or something, although that would struggle with your 600ohm beasts lol. The highest ohm headphones I even own are 300 ohm.
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I’d keep the xduoo if I knew how to use it with another amp to my goxlr if it’s not possible to have connectivity across them then I’d rather just get something else. I also found out what I was talking about is IEMs planned on getting those later on to use with the xduoo.
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So what signal chain are you looking for? The xduoo has a line out on the back, so you can connect it to an amp like the magni heresy or the Asgard 3. How do you want to incorporate the goxlr?
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The goxlr is hooked up to my pc then I use it’s headphone out to the xduo aux out/in currently. If I get the asgard 3 for example and hook it up to that line out how do I get audio from the xlr?
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Wait so you aren’t using USB in on the xduoo? Have you used that?
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I have with the drivers and everything.
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Gotcha, do you notice a volume or quality difference with USB compared to using the goxlr?
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Nope they’re practically the same just I lose the channels from my mixer.
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Gotcha, then honestly you could return the xduoo, grab an Asgard 3 and run it from the goxlr, and also pick up a fiio btr5 or ifi hip dac for iem usage perhaps
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Asgard 3 would definitely be my pick as well. Massive power and great sound for the price.
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Agreed. I mean I haven’t heard it but I love my jot still and I’ve heard that the Asgard is just a better version of it minus the balanced in/out
The dac in it is integrated just like the xduoo?
For the Asgard 3? You can get it without a dac chip for 200, or with akm chip for 300, or a multibit dac chip for 400
Yep I’m getting it with the ak4490 in it. Then I’m going to test side by side. I’m kinda wondering if I should get another set of cans to test across the two of them.
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You could get a nice planar if you wanted to test power, or get a more refined easy to drive to test finesse
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