CHANGSTAR: Audiophile Headphone Reviews and Early 90s Style BBS
Lobby => Headphone Measurements => Topic started by: raif on March 14, 2012, 05:42:02 PM
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First off, love the site. I have already wasted hours reading through everything.
Second, my apologies if this has been broached before elsewhere.
Have you guys considered doing some amplifier measurements?
I have always had issues discerning the difference between 2 well implemented amplifiers, most likely due to the low levels at which I tend to listen. Despite that, claims seem to abound about how much Amp A improves Headphone X over Amp B.
I was thinking that if this indeed true, shouldn't it be able to be measured? Is the problem that the difference might be audible to a listener but below the threshold of the standard error when measuring the headphone's response?
Anyways I would assume that with the same source and headphones, one could do a set of measurements with 2 different amplifiers and then compare the resultant frequency response, thd, etc. Maybe also do it at different volume levels.
What do you guys think? Am I missing something obvious?
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In time. Headphones themselves are a big task!
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This is a big deal and we've discussed it immensely. Too much on the plate atm but rest assured we are just as interested as anyone else in delving deeper into the matter.
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Ah, it is good to know that you have it on your radar.
I have the sinking sensation that at my normal listening levels, the measured differences between properly designed amplifiers are going to be comparable in magnitude to the results of Tyll's burn-in experiment. I am still not sure though which direction I am hoping it goes.
On the one hand I would love an excuse to buy something like the Electra that Craig is cooking up(love the EC aesthetic!) on the other, the $3 - $6k it takes to get one of the beast Stax amps is a boatload of cash.