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Post Subject: Would the Active Placette drive headphones?Posted by Antonio J. on: 4/19/2008
Once I've assumed my speakers system into this house won't ever be able to deliver what I wish to accomplish, I have kind of downgraded my exigences and I'm more and more listening to headphones. For the last few months I've been trying different headphones and headphone amps. By chance and despite the statistics not going in my favour regarding "audiophiles knowledge", I've found the headphones and amp -which fed by the same sources I'm using with the speakers,- are capable to hold my attention listening to serious music recorded -not speaking of FM broadcasts- for more than ten minutes.
This has opened a new scope in my implication and interaction with recorded music -can't complain when attending live performances-, but I'm still too ignorant to know how far can I go with this and if I still can have things righter, in the way of climbing higher in the levels of appreciation of music and why not, audio too.
I can identify some things in my headphone system that could be improved. At this point I don't know if it's the amp or the headphones or both to blame. This morning I had very good electricity supply and listening to the fantastic Kleiber's Beethoven 5th and 7th -which for the first time in my life I've been able to really grab and get involved to at an intelectual level completely new to me,- I thought that having a trully transparent amplifier would allow me to know. Hence my question. Maybe it's a moronic assumption, but if the Active Placette is really transparent and were able to keep that character driving headphones, it'd be a phenomenal tool to learn where the flaws come from and eventually setting up a system that allows me to get a hold on recorded serious music that I've been missing forever.
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