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BigPoppaStuke
5
Aug 22, 2018
So I bought these and checked my sound cards ohm rating (600) and made sure everything was okay and bought the k7XX's.
After a while, I started doing more research and found that the output impedance of my sound card (Asus Xonar Phoebus) is 10 (or 10.5 measured independently).
Following the rule of 1/8, will this alter my sound significantly? or should I be fine? I will be primarily using these for music (Rock, Rap, EDM, Reggae, Synth, etc) and gaming (PUBG, R6 Seige, etc). Coming off of Astro A50's.
Thanks,
Michael-Q
243
Aug 29, 2018
BigPoppaStukeI personally probably wouldn't easily be able to tell the difference. It's sort of like adding an EQ to your headphones that exacerbates the extremes of the frequency response you never liked or wanted in the first place.
In like almost all cases the base response is poorer with weak dampening (caused by high output impedance). I typically like my low end exaggerated. But like I said, I probably would struggle to hear the exact differences anyway. A little bump in EQ would fix the issue for me.
You might be able to hear the subtle differences more so than me. But just knowing there are slight changes may bother you regardless of what you hear or don't hear (knowing it biases what you hear).
So yeah, technically it should be audible but perhaps not easily noticeable -especially if you've never heard the 7xx before.
BigPoppaStuke
5
Aug 30, 2018
Michael-QNever heard them before, but I do have that little feeling in the back of my head that they won't be as good as they could possibly be.
Thanks for the response though! I'll settle for now and if they don't sound as good as I'd like, then I'll start looking at external solutions
StuffinMcMuffins
3
Sep 21, 2018
BigPoppaStukeAny chance to test them out? I'm also coming from M50x.
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