From: Andy Leviss (Andy_at_DUCKSECHOSOUND)
Date: Tue Dec 25, 07 - 15:27 EST
On Dec 25, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Charlie Richmond wrote:
> True, but although you can't make blunt knives that work properly
> you can certainly make personal listening devices that protect the
> users without any detriment to their proper operation and if it
> really costs no more, why not? ;-)
Charlie, have you tried using professional headphones on an iPod
lately? You have to drive the iPod harder and harder to get a
reasonable signal level out of, say, 7506s or HD280s, as each new
iPod generation comes out. I had to swap a 3G for a 30 gig video on a
replacement plan a few years ago, and I found the output level
getting softer on each one. Which I suppose is both an argument that
they are in fact doing something on the output side to scale back,
and an argument that it could be considered a detriment, depending on
what you're driving with them, since you have to get up to the max
level on the headphone amp to drive "real" headphones.
--A
P.S.-That said, for line output, a PocketDock is the way to go,
ideally with files processed to get you mono balanced audio (I carry
a first-gen Shuffle loaded with WAVs for testing processed this way,
a straight XLR to 1/8" cable gets a nice hot balanced mono signal out
of it).
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