spas787According to many it's not a must-to have an amp since the ohm on these is quite low, but it can only benefit, if you not likely to listen to music at quite high volume then you probably won't need one.
As for me I have bought an amp/dac combo to run this (quite cheap one - FiiO e10k ~ 75$) and it works great for me, getting to very high volume even not on the max scale with zero distortions.
I may recommend you get these and test it out how it works for you, if you notice the volume is too low, just grab quite cheap dac/amp combo as I mentioned and you're good to go.
NaorFThanks,I don't listen to anything at high volume so i wont buy an amp.
On an unrelated note i also want to buy a mic. do you know anything about them?
NaorFI'm new to this whole audio thing,and i don't want to spend too much money on something i know so little about.
I have a headset but it has a lot of problems:bass is stupidly high,some song's i cant bare as they should have a quite
bass that is amplified so much(the headphones were also broken in a way that made them unable to produce sounds lower
then ~60 hz and higher then ~15khz but that was "fixed" and showed the bass issues),the mic is broken,the wire is ripped
and the ear pads cracked. this is why i want to buy new cans. the mic is just something i want to try for my guitar/singing
and just for regular use.
NaorFI think ill get the snowball ice. Singing and playing the guitar is a hobby for me,so i think ill go for price and ease of use instead of using an audio interface. thanks for the help!
spas787I see people ask the question whether they need an amp, or whether amp X is enough to drive these. To be able to drive a headphone properly is not simply a matter of volume, it's volume and distortion. Volume is easy to get, however distortion is much harder to get rid of. To run these headphones without clipping distortion you'll ideally need 174mW @ 62 ohms, which is far more than a phone or motherboard jack can provide.
spas787I think it's a good choice, the DAC on the Scarlette is quite decent. Though you may need a dedicated amp in the future, you can use the RCA outputs on your Solo to an amp that takes RCA (most of them do). Unfortunately I'm not that knowledgeable when it comes to mics and recordings :(
JackulaThis looks like a very good value. For 200 dollars i cant find anything as good for the price. over ear headphones,100 dollar audio interface and an amazing mic. I have to say, i'm impressed.
spas787Not sure if you've figured out what to do yet, but I have a scarlet 2i2, and it drives these headphones fine. I would guess there's not a big difference to the solo, so you might be fine without a dedicated amp. I'm not sure it would necessarily even be an improvement.