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In Reply to: RE: Best headphone set up? posted by Wesley Miaw on July 24, 2015 at 15:40:12
I own the DNA Sonett also. I agree with your overall assessment of it's sound quality.
I'm curious, though. Does the Sonett provide you with enough gain when driving the "difficult" Audeze planars?
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I don't blast my volume with listening to headphones, so it's good for me. I usually never turn it up above 4. In terms of ability to control the headphones, rather than reach suitable volumes, I haven't noticed any issues like I have with some other headphone/amp combinations.
However I've had people over who turn it all the way up to 10 and still want more...I sort of wonder if their hearing is super damaged.
I have the feeling that I might listen to music a bit louder than you do, too.My AKG K-701s usually sound best to me at six or seven on the volume knob, while my Sennheiser HD650s usually only need a four or a five. This works well with good quality, dynamically uncompressed recordings.
With poor quality, "loud", and dynamically compressed recordings the above settings get shoved down a notch or two. OTOH, my phono preamp does not provide as much gain as my digital sources do and so the volume level usually gets turned up a notch when I'm playing vinyl.
So, the ideal volume setting often depends on the state of the recording, at least for for me.
I have the original dual XLR balanced version of the Sonett.
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I have not heard these two matched up together but the Violectric head amp is one of the very best sounding amps made today...regardless of price! And they work really good with all types of headphones too.
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