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If I was to buy 250 ohm headphones then would I need a sound card to power them properly from the PC?
Headphones are Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro
Thanks
Headphones are Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro
Thanks
I used a Creative AE5 with 250ohm DT990s, its more than powerful enough but then the built in headphone amp goes upto to 600ohm cans. Not tried the headphones with onboard audio
TBH there are various factors involving current and voltage so even a powerful headphone amplifier doesn't necessarily drive any given headphone well. Some soundcards have decent power outputs some do not. Some onboard audio actually has quite powerful current capabilities but not always great voltage output. Personally unless needing gaming features I'd err towards an external DAC/AMP these days.
Tempted by the G6 for gaming.
To be honest it is hard to beat the AE5 for gaming, aside from maybe the positional audio on the Sennheiser/EPOS GSX1000 but there are other downsides to that device, nothing has really moved on in the gaming audio space OS and games wise and the AE5 makes the best of a bad job.
Any recommendations?
Tempted by the G6 for gaming.
I was tempted by one of these but apparently the software is pretty awful. Schitt Hel dac/amp combo is well recommended,but they were hard to get in Europe.
This is what I use with my DT990 Pros. Great for the money.