[SOLVED] DJM 2000 Headphone Output quality

@Charles > The master output runs through a higher quality DAC than the headphone or booth outputs do so there is a slight difference in the audible quality of the sound, but typically not so much that you'd notice or complain.

IEMs are great for being able to be used at lower levels than their over-ear counterparts, however you're not going to "widen the soundscape" simply by switching your in/on-ear monitoring; that would be done via signal processing.

I have an ear for audio quality, but I'm no audiophile and personally, I would love to have a great pair of IEMs but don't feel that adding a $400+ headphone amplifier would improve my experience of monitoring with a DJ mixer.

@pulse: I understand what you say. but surely a headphone amplifier would sill process the signal, and then would ultimately have a different sound signature?

The issue is that with my IEM's : Acs T2 customs, the sound is truely amazing, so much better than even my hdj 2000's, which i thought were the bee's knees! : the sound through the T2's is fine when listening to one channel/ master. but when you listen to 2 when your in the mix and blending through cue/master it sounds very messy. its hard to explain, as its all beatmatched up etc, but there isnt very much separation between the 2 tracks, and it appears to sound "less stereo" than it should.... if that makes any sense. and its harder to mix as you cant clearly pick out the sounds. 

it might be don the fact they are so clear sounding, infact it does sound like that, but normally you just cant hear it, who knows.

ideally i just need to borrow a good headhpone amp, but they all seem to be made rather exclusively in the USA (all the high end ones).

i shall endeavour to come up with an answer. - on another note: IEMS... : AMAZING..

A headphone amplifier would be unlikely to add any spacial expansion to the audio signal; there is typically no stereo widening or EQ treatments applied to the signal, just amplification.

I hope you find what you're looking for!

There is a new Bug Firmware is 2.0.1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx6sWhTWEMo&feature=related

hope can help with this Video from YT

This is not a bug; when you engage an effect the audio is now routed through the DSP and there is a slight tick in the headphone circuit (not heard through the master). Engaging and disengaging the effects rapidly creates multiple rapid ticks, sounding like distortion as you show in the video. Normal use does not see a user switching effects that rapidly and as it's only through the headphones, it is not a concern.

Also, you run your levels quite high; turn down your channel gain. ;)

@pulse: 

some headphone amplifiers do have an adjustability in the stereo settings! :) but more than that surely the whole reason audio quality varies: is that some DAC's/amplifiers  are better at emphasising different qualities of the sound? so the sound signature from one brand amp/dac will sound different to another, 

eiher way i will keep you posted :)

Pulse the God of Pioneer :D

greets from Austria ;)

@Charles > True, some do but they're also likely to be more expensive than your standard amplifiers.  The DACs rarely "colour" the audio (or at least, they shouldn't) but you will possibly find that one will sound different than another just through the inherent nuances of the audio circuitry.

@mark > lol - I'm no god, just a guy trying to answer questions and put smiles on faces.  ;)