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Post by ben on Jan 14, 2015 17:52:40 GMT -6
I just bought the Mbox Pro 3 for my home setup, replacing a Presonus 26x26. Presonus no longer supports the 26x26 and the old drivers do not work properly with the latest Mac OS.
What I noticed is that the headphone volume is pretty low. I have to crank them up all the way when using PT11. Does anyone have this box? Is that normal or am I gain staging this thing wrong. I mean, my levels from the mic pres are hot, the level in PT is hot, but the headphones seem like they can't keep up.
Anyone know of a mod or something? I mean, I can route a couple of outs to a headphone amp, but I just bought this box and really don't feel like adding on when the thing should work just fine in the first place!
I tried a couple of different cans, just in case of an ohm mismatch, but the Presonus had plenty of headphone juice. Doesn't make sense.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 14, 2015 18:03:43 GMT -6
That was always my complaint with using interface headphone thingys. You could buy that cheap presonus headphone amp to jack up the volume...
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Post by jcoutu1 on Jan 14, 2015 19:06:35 GMT -6
My question was going to be about what phones you're using, but you tried a bunch. If the HD280's don't have enough juice, that's a bad sign.
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Post by Johnkenn on Jan 14, 2015 21:45:06 GMT -6
Even the Apollo didn't have enough juice for my tastes.
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Post by ben on Jan 14, 2015 22:41:51 GMT -6
My question was going to be about what phones you're using, but you tried a bunch. If the HD280's don't have enough juice, that's a bad sign. Yes, those are my recording cans. Cranked all the way and barely enough. |
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Post by ericn on Jan 15, 2015 8:41:04 GMT -6
Honestly I have found this to be the case with almost every interface and console over the years I have found that a cheap modded Symetrix headphone Amp solves the problem.
Every manufacturer I know has seen the headphone amp as a box that must be checked off and never heard of one where it was an important part of the design, it's always been easy to save a couple of bucks and use the cheapest approach .
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Post by jcoutu1 on Jan 15, 2015 8:58:09 GMT -6
I've been researching headphone amps over the past couple of days and there are a few that seem to get a fair amount of praise for low money. They would probably drive your HD600 (I think you said you have) nicely too. Schiit - schiit.com/ - I have a friend that just bought the Vali. We're planning on listening to that amp vs. my cmoy style amp with a variety of phones fairly soon. Fiio - www.fiio.net/en/productsJDSlabs - www.jdslabs.com/store/#featured The O2 headphone amp is supposed to be good and the ODac is supposed to be comparable to the Benchmark. I haven't used any of these, but from the research that I've done, they seem to be at the top of the budget amps. |
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Post by ben on Jan 15, 2015 22:41:50 GMT -6
i think i have an old symetrix unit laying around somewhere. I can't believe more people are not complaining of the same problem. Oh well.
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Post by wiz on Jan 16, 2015 16:04:12 GMT -6
I haI have a custom-made headphone amp Made by pro harmonic here in Australia. Cost a couple hundred bucks. But it's the best sounding thing to listen to with cans on... And really helped me with mic placement being a one guy show.
Cheers
Wiz
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