- Does the Go XLR have enough power,
to power a set of 250 Ohm headphones?
I'm Jordan from Kettner creative and in this video
we are gonna help you answer that question.
In this video ,
we are using the Beyerdynamic DT990 PRO, 250 Ohm headphones.
Headphones like these are extremely popular for gamers
and live streamers because of their clear articulate sound
and the wide sound stage.
A lot of people prefer headphones like this
but first they wanna make sure that this audio mixer
or audio interface here can actually power these headphones.
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in this video we do have links down
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or checking the current price of anything in this video
from a variety of online retailers.
Now the quick answer to this question is,
kind of.
Its really really close,
but we are gonna walk through the three ways
that we tested these headphones to try give you
the best info possible before you go buy
a set of headphones like these.
So the first way that we tested these headphones
was with finished compressed music from iTunes,
Spotify, YouTube,
Very similar with what you'd expect to get
from a gaming system, ingame sound is generally finished,
compressed and normalized, so you do get about
the same level of volume.
And when we were playing those types of sound sources
we found that we had to set the music level,
we had to set up as music on the Go XLR to about 75 to 80%
and that gave us a pretty good full volume out of
these headphones when the headphone volume was also at full.
The second test that we did with these headphones with
this audio interface was doing audio and video editing.
For that we were using less finished audio
that hasn't been completely compressed and normalized yet,
and for that we did have to get right up to 95%,
all but the last light were on
as we were mixing and video editing.
But it did work, we did get the volume
that we wanted out of these headphones,
there's not a lot of hiss in these headphones
at that volume so it did work well for us.
Now the last test that we did with these headphones
is doing exactly what I'm doing right now,
which is exactly what most people wanna do with the Go XLR
and that's recording talking head video or live streaming
with a microphone and you're doing live vocal monitoring,
maybe you are mixing in some in game audio
but mostly you're trying to monitor your voice as well.
So as you can see over here in the Go XLR software set up,
we have the gain set pretty good.
At the beginning of this video
I was about one notch away from peaking
so it is maximized as much as possible.
Then we have the fader all the way up to 100% as well.
We've really extracted all the volume out of this microphone
that we possibly can safely without peaking,
and the headphone volume is also at 100%.
At this level we are completely maxed out on the Go XLR,
I find its on the ragged edge
of being a little bit too quiet for me.
When I'm doing something like this I really do want probably
an extra 10% out of this microphone.
If you have more sensitive hearing maybe
this is good enough for you,
But it is right on that edge
where I don't feel super comfortable saying
its a slam dunk go buy this,
It'll work for sure.
But I do think some people would be happy with it.
So if you're looking at a set of headphones like this,
I would say the safe bet is to get the 80 Ohm version
or a more conservative headphone.
Worst case you end up buying a set of headphones
like this and it is a little underwhelming,
its not as full and robust as you were expecting,
out of a set of high end headphones like these
and you may end up buying
an external headphone amplifier after the fact.
That's my recommendation to you,
its really is too close to call,
I can't say it will work perfectly for you,
but again if you are looking for current pricing
for these headphones or anything in this video,
we do have links down in the description below.
So please check that out with current specs and everything,
maybe you'll find a good deal on it that makes it worth it.
This is a really high end set up,
that's the thing,
you have an expensive microphone,
Most people with the Go XLR go all out, right
The get the Go XLR, they get the expensive microphone,
they want the expensive headphones
to round off the whole set up.
I just don't think its quite there yet,
its a little disappointing for
an audio interface that's this expensive,
this purpose built for high end video streaming,
this is the top of the market.
So I was a little disappointed
that this doesn't work as well,
but that is my review of it
and that's the best information
that I can give you at this time.
If you do have any questions about this set up,
please leave a comment down in the comment section below,
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Thank you for watching.
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