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Guilty-Drawer-808 t1_j1zdum4 wrote

I got the 560s a fee months ago and love them. I am driving them with a denon amp and they can take a bunch of power with no distortion to me. What are you going to drive them with?

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HypeX248 OP t1_j1zjnta wrote

Thats great to hear. Well, what do I drive it with? Good question, you've quite caught me off guard. I do own a really cheap DAC/AMP from SoundBlaster, the price is around 20$. Not sure how that will handle the cans, I hope atleast decently. If you have any good suggestions (preferrably on the cheaper side) please share! :)

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Ruedigsta1522 t1_j20kdan wrote

DO NOT overspend on amps and dacs. Spending more than 100 bux for 560s is completely pointless. If anyone says otherwise they are coping on their pointless purchase.

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Gofa_Kirselph t1_j22n145 wrote

No, no… you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO spend at least 10x more on an amp and DAC. That’s how you get the most out of your headphones! Otherwise, they’ll just sound like poo poo.

^(in case this wasn’t obvious since there’s some weird people who actually believe this…)

#/S

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Avolve t1_j1zlka0 wrote

I’ve never tried my pair with an amp/dac but my laptop/pc seem to drive them fine. I have heard that you’ll get the best out of them with an amp though, but shouldn’t be a big worry.

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HypeX248 OP t1_j1zlvjv wrote

Well... The thing is that my desktop is a rather old one, with a cheap ass motherboard -> might have a weak on board sound department, does this also affect the sound quality greatly? What kind of PC do you have?

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Avolve t1_j1zodmo wrote

I have pretty much a stock Dell XPS with a gpu swap. I got it barely used off Facebook marketplace and I cant seem to find how old it really is but it’s quite a good computer and most likely quite new as well. Can’t say how big of an effect this stuff can have on the sound since I’m pretty new to the hobby and haven’t tested a whole lot of things, but it’s probably worth testing how well it sounds with your pc before investing in a quality amp. But then again if you know you’ll need one in the future, might as well get it now, depends on your situation I guess!

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