Which headphones of Drop's currently available?
I have some rewards points to burn but there's no obviously good options on Drop right now for headphones Contenders Ultrasone - maybe? I don't own any Ultrasones, so curious. Looks like garbage travel headphone which could be useful also. Beyerdynamic DT990 Pro. - Maybe? I have the DT 880 Good price point, really uncomfortable headphones but could be interesting to try the upgraded version. E-MU - strong contender but $400 is a bad price point for what it is. Which of the above would you choose and why? Nothing else on Drop is relevant to my interests, because Already own 6xx 820 800 s Ether cx Garbage / Consumer grade Meze 99 - garbage bass canons, hard pass No gaming headphones obviously Sennheiser wireless - no to wireless/bluetooth Hifiman - I have 2 of drop hifimans and they make really bad cheap shit on Drop, hard pass on HE-R7DX Aeon - I own the closed, Drop refuses to address #padgate so no reason to buy open Beyerdynamic 177x - wireless, nope Too similar 8x / 560s...
Mar 28, 2024
I have 3 headphones (Sennheiser HD 6xx, Audio Technica ATH M50x, and Shure SRH940. I mostly have used the Shures until I purchased the other 2 very recently). I purchased FiiO E6 and FiiO X3 a while back for HiRes audio. I have tried the Sennheiser with it. Good audio, but not exceptional (as I thought it might be) :(
My usage scenarios: 1) HiRez audio (for now FiiO X3 is what I am going to keep using) 2) Listening to TV through headphones when the house needs to be quiet :) Receiver: Denon AVR-4310CI
Thus, for these 2 usage scenarios, what would I need? And specifically, would O2 + SDAC is needed or can just the O2 be enough?
Thanks in advance, all! Cheers, P
I don't know if the Denon receiver (AVR-4310CI) has a decent DAC. At least when I plug in the headset to the headset plug in the front, the sound is okay but very soft. Thus, I keep wondering if I need a better DAC. Maybe I will need to do a bit more research on that front.
I don't really intend to listen to music from my laptop directly - at least not that often. Thus, if I am using the FiiO X3 DAC, then I probably will do fine with the O2 alone. (I think the FiiO E6 amp is okay, but clearly it isn't enough for me :(
A separate question then: if I am only looking at an amp (for one or more of the headphones), is O2 good enough? Are there other options I should research? (Apologies for asking so many questions *and* thank you in advance :)
Cheers!
I think I will go for the plain O2. Also, I had planned on the medium gain (1x/3.3x gain). NOT the standard gain - which is 2.5x/6.5x. At least that's what the options I see. Is that correct? I know there *was* some problem with shipping a few months back where some folks received the 2.5x/6.5x gain version instead of the 1x/3.3x gain).
Since as of right now, I have no plans on getting high impedance headphones, I think 1x/3.3x gain is good enough, right? AND, the options on the plain O2 drop are accurate? It says medium gain is 1x/3.3x and standard gain is 2.5x/6.5x (Of course, 110V for us crazy yanks ;)
Thanks. Cheers!