Headphone Dacs any good?

Amusingg

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Hi guys just wondering what these actually are?



Their quite costly good ones from about £60-100+



I know they control volume is one of their main features since alot of good headphones dont come with volume dials which is mostly gaming headsets with mic features


But what else do they do? they control base and amps and some other tuff?


I changed from a gaming headset to a seperate mic and headphones i was told its way better sound audio even for gaming, would buying a Dac improve the sound even further or is it literally just to control volume and change the bass (so make sound different rather than 'better') ?



Thanks guys!:)
 

fredfinks

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Better quality digital to analogue conversion and features like volume control, and amplification.
With decent headphones they do make a difference, you dont have to be an audiophile to notice it.

I HATE the lack of volume control on headphones. Ive been a Sennheiser user for about 20 years and nowadays 99.9999% of volume control on headphones is Iphone crap.
Why the hell would you make a volume control thats limited to 1 device? if it was an analogue dial it could be used with anything even the iphones.

I had to look for ages to find a replacement for headphones i had for about 7 years. You know how hard it was to find decent On-ear headphones with inline analogue volume control?

f me dead