Which Headphone Amp

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Evening all after little help looking for Headphone Amp not really happy with the Sound with my Amiron's not that there bad headphones there brilliant and just ordered the DT 1990 PRO's the amp will be mainly for home use not needing a DAC I have a MF v90 dac and be PC use was looking at the Beyerdynamic IMPACTO. but not sure if that will drive the DT1990 PROS it says it will drive the Amirons
 
The Impacto is a DAC & Amp in one, so you won't be able to use your MF V90

Why are you buying the DT1990 when you already have the Amiron Home?

Normally I would suggest a Schiit Magni 3 but the retailer doesn't seem to be able to hang on to any stock due to their popularity.

If you want to stick with Beyer then the A20 is an amp only though the cost is quite high at £370 .

ifi iCan SE (£280) is a very good amp with the switchable "X Bass" bass booster for that EDM slam

Alternatively the Arcam rHead (£200) is a very good class A amp that will drive your phones very nicely.

rHead review: https://www.innerfidelity.com/content/british-hifi-heritage-arrives-headphone-world-arcams-rhead
 
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Well, there's Objective2 designed to drive basically any headphone technically perfectly and doesn't cost arm and leg.
http://www.headnhifi.com/objective2

You won't be turning volume knob much up in that with 250 ohm Beyers...
Unless yearning for early retirement of hearing!


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If you want to stick with Beyer then the A20 is an amp only though the cost is quite high
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It has 100 ohm output impedance so good only for high impedance cans.
With fashionable low impedance headphones electric damping factor would suck and with say HD5xx Sennheisers uneven impedance curve would bloat/boost bass.
https://africa-middle-east.beyerdynamic.com/amfile/file/download/file_id/828/product_id/3271/
 
Fair enough, I didn't realise the output impedance was so ridiculously high, so I've scrubbed it from my suggestions.

The Objective 2 no longer has a manufacturer or retailer in the UK, besides, it's really an entry level amp and he's looking for a step up in sound quality.
 
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The Amiron's are excellent Cans. But there not the best for EDM. There's not enough bottom end for my liking they have greats vocals brilliant for anything but EDM there not bad. But want that bit more humph
 
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The Objective 2 no longer has a manufacturer or retailer in the UK, besides, it's really an entry level amp and he's looking for a step up in sound quality.
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Objective2 lacks only in amount of marketing BS. (+power to drive speakers)
And until Brexit happening buying from other EU country is no harder than buying from UK for those living in other EU countries.
 
Last time I checked America wasn't in the EU and that's where the vast majority of O2s are made (JDS Labs and Mayflower).

When the O2 was first released it was like a breath of fresh air and really stirred up the headphone amp market. Things have moved on since then though and the market is far more competitive at all price points. The O2 was a good rival to the Schiit Magni, both of which punched well above their respective weights but the O2 is still the O2, unchanged, while the Magni is now the Magni 3, which simply sounds better (it uses the same tech as the Vidar). I have the Magni 3 fed with a Modi Multibit and have no wish or need to go any further, though I might get a tube amp for a spot of tube rolling, not for sound quality.

I've also reinstated the A20 as a suggestion because all the reports I've read have said that it makes Beyers very dynamic and punchy, so I would guess that contemporary Beyers, such as the Amiron and DT1990 are tuned to use Beyer amps no matter what their output impedance.

So my final 4 suggestions are:

Beyerdynamic A20 (£370)
ifi iCan SE (£270)
Arcam rHead (£200)
Schiit Magni 3 (£110) if it is ever in stock :D
 
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BUY BUY BUY :D

I got my hopes up that if they had Magni 3 stock in then they just might have got a few Lokis in while they were at it - no such luck :(
 
Magni 3 out of stock in the Schiit EU. Oh well ordered the R Head, Schiit need to sort it out with there products i do believe there brilliant and very popular but there stock is awful. You would think they would sort it out in someway to get more stock
 
The problem is that they can sell way more than they can make, so stock is a serious issue throughout the company, not just the Magni 3. They are a fairly small company so they are quite limited by capacity and simply don't have the room or resources to increase capacity in the short term. It's safe to say that the Magni 3 has sold well beyond their wildest dreams.
 
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Last time I checked America wasn't in the EU and that's where the vast majority of O2s are made (JDS Labs and Mayflower).

I've also reinstated the A20 as a suggestion because all the reports I've read have said that it makes Beyers very dynamic and punchy, so I would guess that contemporary Beyers, such as the Amiron and DT1990 are tuned to use Beyer amps no matter what their output impedance.
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No need to buy from Trumpland, or did Germany move to Nort America?
http://www.headnhifi.com/moving-on.html

250 ohm Beyers don't have fully flat impedance curve so of course there's going to be little bit more bass when you add that much output impedance.
And designers certainly don't design headphones for mechanical damping, because that's always compromise.
(and neither is slower decay from less damping more accurate sound)
Anyway it's not sensible to buy amplifier fit only for certain headphones.
 
Normally poorly damped voice coils cause the bass to become boomy and indistinct sounding, which is the exact opposite of what owners have reported with the pairing of the A20 and Beyer headphones, including the DT1990, DT1770 and T70.

Top and centre of that website is a message from the owner, dated May 2017, that he is winding up the company and starting a new one in Germany but with no mention of said new company, so my comment stands.
 
Right chaps i can get the Magni 3 from the USA and get it shipped do you think its worth getting shipped or waiting to see if it comes back in stock in the EU site?
 
entirely up to you but if you buy from the US, that's where your warranty will be held, so if anything goes wrong you have to ship it back to the states.

I thought you'd already ordered the Arcam? No point in having both.

If you choose to wait for UK stock, just check Schiit.eu daily as whatever he has in won't last long
 
What's with the totally different information on Head-fi?

According to the posts over there you only ordered the Amiron Home 3 days ago, haven't ordered the DT1990 and haven't ordered the Arcam rHead - so which is the truth, what you've posted here or what's on Head-fi?

I'm totally confused as to what you do or don't have now.
 
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