Greg Wormald wrote:
In article , Rich
wrote:
Hello. I know very little about these players, I don't want to buy,
sell, audition a box full of them. I would like to ask (since this
group most likely knows this) which player (I don't care about video)
has the best quality sound and can it drive Grado's, say 80s without
an additional amp?
Thanks very much for your help here.
I know that the Ipods regularly win in the sound stakes
I don't know that they are better or worse than other portable digital
players.
---HOWEVER, my
impression of the Grado 80's is that they are best with a dedicated
headphone amp, otherwise they sound a bit 'flat'.
The Grado SR80s have a specified impedence of 32 ohms at 1 kHz. If they have a simialrly low
impedence at low frequencies, the bass will sound attenuated on an iPod 'Classic' ior a
'Mini'. A safer bet for these would be to use headphones with a high rated impedence e.g ~60
ohms @ 1 kHz.
The ipod Shuffle, on the other hand, may do just fine even with 32 ohm earbuds!
http://home.comcast.net/~machrone/pl...playertest.htm
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