Deftones115
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What’s the best way to use your headphones with fm3? 3.5 mm jack or? I would like to know please.
1) Use the headphone jack.I’m just asking and my bad lol. I just want the best quality for clarity.
Just curious, you can drive your HD650 with your scarlett without any external headphones amp ? It's supposed to be for 250 ohms max, and the HD is 300.Fractal puts in a very high quality DAC in the FM3 and FX3. The best test is to try it and see whether it meets your needs then worry about it if it doesn't. Worrying about it without knowing is just needless anxiety. Fractal says in many places in the manual and the Wiki that our ears are our best tool for determining if something is "good enough" or the right thing.
I use several types of head and ear phones and think the headphone output on the FM3 and FX3 are equal to the sound quality I get from my Scarlett, which is my primary audio output for my computer and, with Sennheiser HD650 headphones it's pretty fricken awesome. The Scarlett has a little more wattage than the FM3 headphone output, so 350 ohm headphones aren't able to get as loud on the FM3, but they still sound very good.
Generally I use a pair of Audio Technica ATH-MA40x and 1/4" adapter with the FM3 and they sound really good.
This question comes at an opportune time because I was just comparing my Focusrite Scarlett 6i6 2nd gen headphone output with my Sennheiser HD6XX (which is the Drop.com variant of the HD650) vs FM3 headphones output vs an old 1980s Marantz PM-80 mark 2 receiver to figure out if I want to buy a headphone amp for these.Just curious, you can drive your HD650 with your scarlett without any external headphones amp ? It's supposed to be for 250 ohms max, and the HD is 300.