Audeze lcd2 sound quality

[Crack user]

I know that the bottlehead wouldn't drive the Audeze anywhere near its full power, but how would the sound quality be at a not very loud level? Because i usually don't listen to my music above 100-110 db which would be 10-100 mw which I'm guessing the crack can do.

Please let me know if I'm all wrong haha.

[Doc B.]

how would the sound quality be at a not very loud level? Because i usually don't listen to my music above 100-110 db

?!

[johnsonad]

Wow  . That's loud, concert level loud.....

[hpjun]

It would drive the LCD's loud enough. But it will be a mismatch between the amp's output impedance of ~120, and your LCD2 impedance of 60 ohms, resulting in flabby bass and less clarity because of something known as the damping factor. That's why the Crack is recommended for high impedance headphones over 250 ohms. Though the S.E.X. amp will drive just about any headphone to great sound and will drive the LCD2.

[Doc B.]

I recommend the Mainline as the best choice for LCD-2s. S.E.X. works great too.

[Crack user]

Ok thanks. And ya idk. 100-110 is usually the loudest I'd ever listen to. Generally it's around 80 or 90. But what I was getting at is that the Audeze are rated for 133db which is just crazy and I don't need (or want) anything near that loud.

I understand the Impeadance mismatch, but i thought that with the planar magnetic technology they had a virtually flat Impeadance curve so you wouldn't get as much of the problems of Impeadance mismatch.

[Paul Birkeland]

The 133dB rating is hard to evaluate because there is no distance measurement from the driver, distortion rating, or frequency range where this can occur.  In essence, how useful is 133dB at 1Khz, 1 CM, and 65% THD... (compared to 133dB, 60Hz, 1CM, 5% THD).

Regardless, the Crack is not the amp for these cans, but the Mainline works very, very well.

-PB