• Dragonfruit
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    6723 days ago

    I’m no audio expert, but I feel like “audiophile headphones” and “headphones you can power directly from a steam deck” are probably mutually exclusive

    • @[email protected]
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      3623 days ago

      Not necessarily, some high-end headphones manage to have a low resistance and high sensitivity combo and are easy to “drive” without a dedicated amp.

    • @[email protected]
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      523 days ago

      I use planar headphones which are not too bad to drive, but most of the time I need some extra power. The deck actually is capable of blowing my eardrums out still

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)
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      22 days ago

      I’m betting that it can drive 250Ω headphones. Verifying.

      EDIT: Yup. DT990s actually doing pretty decent.

      EDIT 2: Not that I expect that OOP has actually nice-sounding and comfortable cans (the latter, along with repairability, is the reason that I have em in the first place), since they referred to them as “audiophile” headphones.

    • Caveman
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      123 days ago

      There are good headphones that can work with a headphone jack.