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Originally Posted by W9TR
Am I stirring the pot? You decide. But I don't have any economic interest in the discussion, whereas all the articles posted so far definitely do.  |
Well you are probably referring to the original article in my first post by Violectric? So then we should of course compare side by side with Benchmark?
One is a dedicated headphone amp, the other is a DAC with a headphone out?
Benchmark chose to package their product as a DAC to include a SE headphone out.
Violectric decided to do a balls to the wall headphone amp with both SE and Balanced and a DAC module if needed or wanted.
Both products over $2k. So probably will be used with rather serious headphones?
Right... Let's take an Audeze just as an example.
Audeze LCD-4 requires
1-4W and is 200 ohm impedance.
Benchmark puts out
1.2w into 30 ohms and much less into 200.
Violectric puts out
2.8w into 32 ohms,
4.2W into 50 ohms and whopping
5.6W into 100 ohms.
Violectric V281 also specs out at
Crosstalk:
-105 dB (1 kHz) / -103 dB (15 kHz)
Output impedance:
< 0.1 Ohm unbal. / < 0.2 Ohm bal
Dynamic range:
> 129 dB (A-wtd)
Noise:
< -95 dBu (A-wtd)
I'd say with specs like that Violectric is a serious BALANCED headphone amp.
What was Benchmark saying again?
