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In the Thread: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades?
Post Subject: Further interesting headphone amp observations.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/3/2006
As I was saying: who the hell need a headphone setup if it does not sound as good as the speakers setup? So it is the way in which I approach the headphone sound. The headphones intrinsically have problem with MF and “wrong bass”. There are ways to deal with it, more or less successfully. But I am a lucky pussy and I have “correct headphones”… so care about it less…
What I usually do is sitting in my “sweet spot” for my speaker installation and putting the headphone on and off I would like having the identical sound. Well, almost identical as headphone could not really even approach the space, the imaging and the whole presentation of the big system. However, here is where the trick begins. Putting the headphones on, playing them along with the big loudspeakers system and adjusting the volume of the “big system” (primary the LF channel) it is possible to take the imagine and the upperbass performance of the headphones way out there. The most fascination discovery that make with my headphone amp that injecting the positive voltage feedback the amp, when it plays alone, begin to sound like it has the “support” of the big system on background. The positive feedback (in this amp) makes sound larger, beautifully slower in bass and the starch the presentation from being inside of the head to an aura around my head. Very interesting effect!
I would not say that it’s it but I can see something is very promising in the direction where this headphone amp goes….
The Cat
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