Pharmaboy
Headphoneus Supremus
Hi,
Picked up a Dackard a few weeks ago.what gain setting do you guys use for your LCD-2f ?
I Find medium to be more forward than low gain anyone else experience this.
Cheers
How do you like the sound of this amp?
I've never heard a Deckard. But there has been a slow-motion discussion here and in other threads about the sound of low vs medium vs high gain. Many believe, as you say, that there are sonic differences between gain settings. I tend to believe that also (high gain means greater amplification than low gain = more electronics brought to bear on that line-level signal coming into the amp. But since I only use low gain on all my amps, it's just conjecture.
I do have an LCD-2, one of the original ".2" versions (pre-fazor). I've tried this on 3 solid state amps of widely varying power (Liquid Carbon v2; Lake People G109-A; and Violectric V281. In all 3 cases, I got more than enough volume without ever reaching ~10:00 to 10:30 on dial(s).
- FYI, the Deckard's power output is 4W@20 ohms, which is somewhat less than the V281's but more than the G109-A's.
The only headphone I have that could possibly justify a higher gain stage is the power-hungry planar, ZMF Ori. But even there I get more than enough volume at ~11:30 to 12:00 on the dial(s), so never bothered changing gain.