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hal55
21-11-2015, 13:10
I might have an opportunity shortly to pick up a dragonfly at a reasonable discount to new price. Headphones it will be used with are Audio technica AD900s. my current headphone amp is a de Paravicini design I bought somewhere in the 1980s (it's been Good) while my DAC is a Liteaudio Dac60 with valves (it's been Good as well) but was purchased somewhere around 2007. Both are obviously getting on and the Dragonfly has been getting a lot of favourable comment. The stats on the headphones are:

Impedance: 38 or 35 ohms I've seen both quoted.
Sensitivity: 100dB
Power Handling: 1000mW

Can the Dragonfly COMFORTABLY drive these? I don't want to feel that's it straining to do the job, which is the case when connecting them to my phone, it can drive them quite well enough but there is a clear feeling that they are being flattened a bit and are less fluid than coming off the amp. Also, just how fiddly is it setting this device up as the DAC in a normal hifi separates system, either driving a preamp or straight into a power amp?

Thanks,

Hal55