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Do I need a dac/amp for Sennheiser HD820?

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I just bought an HD820 and currently plug it into my macbook pro 16 inch (m1 pro) directly, according to apple, this macbook offers 3V RMS for the 300-ohm impedance HD820, and I did feel the maximum volume loud enough to be unbearable. I've heard is that the amp is just for more volume, so do I not need an amp at all?


and in this situation, macbook is a dac and also a amp, the amp is good enough to provide loud volume, but whether the dac part is also good enough for HD820?
 
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You don't.


It is.

The best way to improve sound quality is to EQ the headphones using SoundSource or eqMac.

Yeah, I feel the high pitch of hd820 (such as violin) is some kind of harsh, I hope EQ will fix this problem
 
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