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I agree that there is a metric ton of snake oil but make no difference? That’s not true at all. Power consumption and capacitor sizes make tons of difference. W

• hug 3y ago
  DACs? Beyond a very very cheap entry point they make no difference. Anyone telling you that DAC A is warmer sounding than DAC B is almost certainly a cork sniffer. Amps, however, obviously have an impact on the sound delivered — especially for high impedance headphones, or those that are otherwise difficult to drive (think some planar magnetically, etc). Again, though, anyone who thinks that relatively powerful amp A is significantly different to equivalently powerful amp B is almost certainly more interested in impressing other people with too much money than how kit actually sounds.
• cyberpunk 3y ago
  _almost_ no difference. Maybe I just have crap ears, but I’ve tried blind comparing headphone amps and honestly can’t tell any difference between my chord mojo, my schiit Valhalla and my ifi or dragonfly… They’re all fairly low end though I guess.