What is the ohms mean?

Thanks. Yes, i thought something like this. But I dont understand how a 100watt amp can easily drive some 120watt B&W 603 floorstanders to the point of the house shaking down, yet it cant drive some 300ohm headphones properly. Unless of course wattage is not realated to current?

So does the ohm in headphones generally mean that high quality headphones have high ohms? Would be interesting to find a chart with current headphones and their ohms, or even a list of the main ones like Grado, Sennheiser, Goldring and some others like Technics, Sony, Pioneer and Denon

Cheers
 
Uriel said:
I have to say, I'm very surprised that you bought an ST, which has one of the best headphone amps that can be found built into a soundcard, without knowing why headphone amplifiers were important.
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I don't really use headphones that much and have always just had them connected to my amp, headset from my audigy 2 was connected to the soundcard. (which i only ever used in BF2)

mr_x_plosion - No, im not driving headphones from speaker out. Xonar essence has phono connections for speaker out so cant anyway. On my audigy 2 card i always did though, i just had a splitter from the speaker out that went to speakers and my headset.

If i did manage to connect my headphones to the speaker out (by a dual male phono > 3.5mm female adapter) then what would happen?

Also what would happen if i connected my amp and speakers to my headphone out on the soundcard by using a 6mm male > 3.5mm female then 3.5mm male > dual male phono to my amp?
 
Also, i know it a bit off topic but when i connect to phono on my amp instead of aux1, aux2, or cd and play some music. It sounds like a shower of crap coming out of my speakers. Is this normal?

Works find when i plug into cd, or aux
 
arhhh, thanks guys. So in theory i could connect headphone out on soundcard to phono on back of my amp. Then plug my headphones into the front of my amp and switch it to phono

I'm going to take a guess at mud coming out of the headphones and then possibly breaking
 
^ I had a look into the sennheiser HZR62 but ' Not recommended for hard-core audiophiles, however, since the device tends to add a slight background noise floor (line-level hiss) to the audio signal.'

thats not what tha wants!

Think ill just go for the belkin one on -jungle store- for a fiver

edit - will this add hiss and be crap?

Headphone Extension Cordwith Volume Control. £6

* Extender lead for headphones
* Suitable for all personal stereos
* Add a volume control to your existing headphones
* Pocket clip for easier portability

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Technical Specification

Specifications:
Cord length: 0.9 metres ± 10%
Connector: L-shaped 3.5mm nickel-plated stereo plug
 
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