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<blockquote data-quote="Art Welter" data-source="post: 214250" data-attributes="member: 52"><p>Aditya,</p><p>To avoid potentially making people deaf, it appears the level the <a href="https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0491" target="_blank">Behringer MA400</a> provides is probably going to be about as much as you can expect from most headphone amps with your phones.</p><p>That said, your 32 ohm Sampson SR950 phones are only 96dB at 1mw, so with 40mw max out at around 112dB. That's loud enough to potentially cause hearing damage over sustained listening, but not very loud when compared to the 60 ohm Sony MDR-7506, at 106dB at 1mw, they should be between 7 and 10dB louder, reaching 119-122 dB with the same amp. A 10 dB increase at 1kHz sounds about twice as loud, while down at 30 Hz, a 5dB increase can sound twice as loud.</p><p>There are other phones with similar sensitivity to the MDR-7506, though I can't personally attest to their quality, while the V-6/7506 have been "industry standards" since 1985. I have a pair of V6 from back then, and 8 pair of MDR-7506 from a decade later, they all still sound like they always did- very close to flat response.</p><p></p><p>Art</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Art Welter, post: 214250, member: 52"] Aditya, To avoid potentially making people deaf, it appears the level the [URL='https://www.behringer.com/product.html?modelCode=P0491']Behringer MA400[/URL] provides is probably going to be about as much as you can expect from most headphone amps with your phones. That said, your 32 ohm Sampson SR950 phones are only 96dB at 1mw, so with 40mw max out at around 112dB. That's loud enough to potentially cause hearing damage over sustained listening, but not very loud when compared to the 60 ohm Sony MDR-7506, at 106dB at 1mw, they should be between 7 and 10dB louder, reaching 119-122 dB with the same amp. A 10 dB increase at 1kHz sounds about twice as loud, while down at 30 Hz, a 5dB increase can sound twice as loud. There are other phones with similar sensitivity to the MDR-7506, though I can't personally attest to their quality, while the V-6/7506 have been "industry standards" since 1985. I have a pair of V6 from back then, and 8 pair of MDR-7506 from a decade later, they all still sound like they always did- very close to flat response. Art [/QUOTE]
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