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firby · 5th May 2006

I have mixed with 240DFs if you are going to _mix_ with headphones they are definitely the way to go. Mixing with headphones is not a good idea for all of the reasons that people always say it is not a good idea. But, I have done it with those headphones with good result. 240DFs sound flat, and pleasant. They are very unSony which I love. I have a bunch of sony cans for tracking but I have 240DFs for listening and eqing in them is a snap. They take a ton of juice and enaything that runs on a battery will be scraping big time to provide a sgnal without much bass. They run good off of the board of my Tascam m2600 MKII (an 8 buss analog mixer) and from plug in stereo gear.

I got into a better place now and I dont use them as much. I can be loud here. The place I go for information like this is headwize.com and something like headfi ? The guy that built the CMOY amplifier design is on one of those boards and he is good. For a very cheap amp the CMOY might be your bet but I have not heard _any_ headphone amps. So I will abstain from commenting. However, there is a slew of information and opinions for pairing headphones with headphone amps there and if you use the search function you will probably find an opinion what works best with 240DFs.

5th May 2006	#3
firby Lives for gear Joined: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,609	I have mixed with 240DFs if you are going to _mix_ with headphones they are definitely the way to go. Mixing with headphones is not a good idea for all of the reasons that people always say it is not a good idea. But, I have done it with those headphones with good result. 240DFs sound flat, and pleasant. They are very unSony which I love. I have a bunch of sony cans for tracking but I have 240DFs for listening and eqing in them is a snap. They take a ton of juice and enaything that runs on a battery will be scraping big time to provide a sgnal without much bass. They run good off of the board of my Tascam m2600 MKII (an 8 buss analog mixer) and from plug in stereo gear. I got into a better place now and I dont use them as much. I can be loud here. The place I go for information like this is headwize.com and something like headfi ? The guy that built the CMOY amplifier design is on one of those boards and he is good. For a very cheap amp the CMOY might be your bet but I have not heard _any_ headphone amps. So I will abstain from commenting. However, there is a slew of information and opinions for pairing headphones with headphone amps there and if you use the search function you will probably find an opinion what works best with 240DFs.