Headphone impedance

[lottica]

Hi,

I'm wondering if anyone has some good advice to offer me about headphone impedance. I am using an Mbox 2 and Logic Pro 8 to do home recording, just about to go off to university so decided I would invest in a new pair of headphones. I have a pair of Beyer DT 100's here which I understand are very good, but these are 400 ohms. Is this too much? Anybody know how many ohms I should be looking at here? I'm kinda new to the whole ohms thing!

Any help or advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks

Lottica

 

[mshilarious]

Not too much in the way of specs for the Mbox headphone amp; but 6mW at 50 ohms is an indication of a fairly weak headphone drive. However, for typical low impedance headphones you needs lots of current drive rather than voltage, which is more what your high impedance headphones need.

Before you replace the headphones, I'd look at getting a dedicated headphone amp that can drive high or low impedance cans.