gab3739
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New member here (but I have read and researched a lot on this forum).
Anyway, I've been using my 240M's for about a year now as referencing/mixing headphones. I don't have any room treatment, but I don't just rely on headphones. I still use semi-decent consumer PC speakers with a sub as another reference, but the majority of the time I'm using the 240M's.
I don't have a headphone amp for them and I know that it's recommended or literally required to have an amp for properly driving them since they're 600ohms. I didn't know this at first and have put off buying a headphone amp. Right now I'm just plugging it into the headphone jack of my Digidesign Mbox or (this is a little ghetto, but it was worth trying) having the line outs of the Mbox go to an OLD Onkyo quartz synthesized tuner amp from the late 80's and plugging my AKG's into the 1/4" headphone jack of that. It's hard to tell if it drives it any better, but it's certainly not powerful as I would like.
I read a post on here about the Vividaudiotech V1 being able to drive the 240M's somewhat, but giving them a bit of a bright edge. I don't know if the synergy between the two is aimed more for listening to music, mixing, or both. My budget is like $200-$250 and I see that the V1 is $100. I'm wondering if it's worth buying the V1; would it drive any better than my Mbox? Another option I've been thinking is to use that money into headphones that don't necessarily need an amp to drive or perhaps a pair of heads + the V1 altogether.
I've been looking at ATH-M50 and the Beyerdynamic DT770 80ohms a lot lately, but I'm not sure which option is the best here -- sticking with 240M's while getting a portable amp (for now) or getting a new pair of headphones altogether (and maybe a portable amp anyway).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Anyway, I've been using my 240M's for about a year now as referencing/mixing headphones. I don't have any room treatment, but I don't just rely on headphones. I still use semi-decent consumer PC speakers with a sub as another reference, but the majority of the time I'm using the 240M's.
I don't have a headphone amp for them and I know that it's recommended or literally required to have an amp for properly driving them since they're 600ohms. I didn't know this at first and have put off buying a headphone amp. Right now I'm just plugging it into the headphone jack of my Digidesign Mbox or (this is a little ghetto, but it was worth trying) having the line outs of the Mbox go to an OLD Onkyo quartz synthesized tuner amp from the late 80's and plugging my AKG's into the 1/4" headphone jack of that. It's hard to tell if it drives it any better, but it's certainly not powerful as I would like.
I read a post on here about the Vividaudiotech V1 being able to drive the 240M's somewhat, but giving them a bit of a bright edge. I don't know if the synergy between the two is aimed more for listening to music, mixing, or both. My budget is like $200-$250 and I see that the V1 is $100. I'm wondering if it's worth buying the V1; would it drive any better than my Mbox? Another option I've been thinking is to use that money into headphones that don't necessarily need an amp to drive or perhaps a pair of heads + the V1 altogether.
I've been looking at ATH-M50 and the Beyerdynamic DT770 80ohms a lot lately, but I'm not sure which option is the best here -- sticking with 240M's while getting a portable amp (for now) or getting a new pair of headphones altogether (and maybe a portable amp anyway).
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.