Hi everyone,
I'm relatively new here so I'm not too sure about how things work, but I was curious about the effects of output impedance on headphones that have flat impedance-frequency curves.
I recently acquired a 2011 LCD 2 and am thinking about picking up a headphone amp for it. I'm currently using an Onkyo TX-NR509 Speaker amp's headphone jack and there seems to be limitless power and pretty clear sound.
I've read that an amps output impedance can colour a headphone's sound depending on how the impedance of the headphone changes over frequencies. In the case of the LCD 2 (and many other planars) the impedance is basically constant, as can be seen in this graph from innerfidelity:
Am I correct in assuming that my amp shouldn't colour the sound of my headphones from its (probably) high output impedance?
and would be any other audible differences in me getting an amp like the JDS atom as compared to my current set-up. Perhaps a slight increase in clarity and decrease in noise? Or are there other things that I am not considering?
I'm relatively new here so I'm not too sure about how things work, but I was curious about the effects of output impedance on headphones that have flat impedance-frequency curves.
I recently acquired a 2011 LCD 2 and am thinking about picking up a headphone amp for it. I'm currently using an Onkyo TX-NR509 Speaker amp's headphone jack and there seems to be limitless power and pretty clear sound.
I've read that an amps output impedance can colour a headphone's sound depending on how the impedance of the headphone changes over frequencies. In the case of the LCD 2 (and many other planars) the impedance is basically constant, as can be seen in this graph from innerfidelity:
Am I correct in assuming that my amp shouldn't colour the sound of my headphones from its (probably) high output impedance?
and would be any other audible differences in me getting an amp like the JDS atom as compared to my current set-up. Perhaps a slight increase in clarity and decrease in noise? Or are there other things that I am not considering?