Focal Clear amp suggestion

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Good advice offered above. Please also see:

Focal Clear Open-back Headphones - Official Thread

Going to start off wishing @darrellharwood and @PaisleyUnderground the best of luck looking for a nice amp since they’re looking in the Arche price range. There are a ton of great choices like the Pendant, Euforia, Elise, Starlett, etc. Headphones.com has an open box Arche for 40% off if you’re interested. Lyr 3 is undeniably a more flexible amp playing well with anything you can plug into it. I find it to be a wonderfully relaxing listen. Schiit has always had great performance out of …

Take Me to School (Understanding Audio Better)

Not reaching the 2V “standard” output from a phone, or DAC/amp output (like the DragonFly Black for example, which caps at 1.2V), means that you’ll be able to utilize less of the available power in the amplifier you’re feeding. The same would be true if your “line out” didn’t reach 2V (some don’t). Next, headphone outputs are intended to drive relatively low impedances (typically between 16 and 600 Ω, where as line-outputs are usually designed to expect much higher impedances (typically 10 kΩ …