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DirkP
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Of all the audio-interfaces I know (< 1.000,-), the SPL Crimson has the best headphone amps. I use a Motu 824 know because I needed more inputs, but I still use the headphone outs of the Crimson. I don't have the Sennheiser HD600, but some older 600 ohm AKG headphones and the AKG 701 that is - although it has less ohms - is kind of hard to drive. The newer Crimsons have the phonitor matrix integrated! I really like the Crimson for being a monitor controller, too. And it allows you to connect many sources at once and switch between them. It is kind of the opposite of the Motu. The motu has an integrated software mixer with lots of flexibility, the SPL is hardwired. But you can do everything directly at the unit and it works very good stand alone.
Thanks, I didn't know about the SPL Crimson 3, so I started casually looking at it now.
It's
specification webpage says that it's Headphone Outputs are 33 ohms. If I understand it correctly, High-Impedance Headphones such as the Sennheiser HD600 (300 ohms) should be paired with Low-Impedance Headphone Outputs. If so, is 33 ohms → 300 ohms indeed a good pairing – i.e. is the Crimson 3 indeed a power-friendly and sound-neutral pairing for the 600HD?
I tried to find more information about the sound quality and latency of the Crimson 3. Didn't find too much, but the sound quality is supposed to be good right? What about the latency - it's a bit sparse on digestible information for a newbie like me, e.g. in the Gearslutz Low Latency Performance Database
thread. It looks like it's using a USB 2.0 "B"-connection which isn't very recent.