power hungry headphones?

[Oldson]

i am looking to add another headphone to my growing collection.
one option being the Modhouse Tungsten.
as this headphone is regarded as relatively hard to drive, i have a question that may kill it (and others) as an option for me.
(assuming my amp has the power)
do these "harder to drive" headphones perform well at low volume levels ?
i do not want something that needs to be played at high levels to sound any good.

 

[AnalogSteph]

Holy moly, 78 dB / mW at 155 ohms (or 86 dB / 1 V)... those can use a whole lotta voltage. 7 Vrms for 103 dB and 15.6 Vrms for 110 dB peak.

do these "harder to drive" headphones perform well at low volume levels ?
i do not want something that needs to be played at high levels to sound any good.

I wouldn't think that this is a problem. If anything, the response of this model is slightly on the "loudness" side of things.

 

[staticV3]

do these "harder to drive" headphones perform well at low volume levels ?

There's no correlation between headphone efficiency and low volume performance.

 

[Oldson]

ok cheers for the replies guys

 

[Jimbob54]

You'd better hope you like the stock response though because any heavy eq is going to chew the amps headroom up pretty quickly.

 

[Oldson]

You'd better hope you like the stock response though because any heavy eq is going to chew the amps headroom up pretty quickly.

great point, had not thought of that