Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
If you aren't able to drive low sensitivity or high impedance headphones with the Lightning to 3.5mm adapter, a separate amp would help. That's generally the main practical benefit, most other advantages people would point out about an upgraded DAC/AMP (better sound quality, better stereo separation/imaging, better instrument separation, etc), are subjective.
Bluetooth headphones contain a DAC/amp of their own which processes the digital sound stream from the bluetooth chip, and generally can't use an external analog source (some cheaper models do have 3.5mm inputs, but I wouldn't pair them with an external DAC/amp).