A total of 9 reviews of this product on Reddit.
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A little over your budget, but the Monoprice Liquid Spark is an excellent headphone amp that will easily drive your headphones, as well as 99% of headphones that are out there.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
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Monoprice liquid spark amp and add a DAC later
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
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Fiio K5 Pro will easily drive both of those headphones.
SMSL line out as a DAC looks very good, audibly transparent
https://reference-audio-analyzer.pro/en/report/dac/smsl-m3.php
Why not get just an amp since you have a decent DAC to use? You could get a Monoprice Liquid Spark amp
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
Measures pretty well
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If you want something that will easily drive the K712, the Monoprice Liquid Spark can do it
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
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The Liquid Spark is a very good amp, better than the e10k amp. You might wait to see if it comes back in stock
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
Topping L30 is excellent. Even more accurate than Liquid Spark, although you might not be able to tell the difference
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One of these two amps would be my recommendation
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/JDS-Labs-Atom-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B0814ZWQ24/
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>But it does look scetchy for a 75€ dac/amp combo.
It’s not a dac/amp combo
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT/
>I read about the JDS Atom but with conversion + shipment + new power supply it gets kinda
You could also look at the Schiit Heresy. Or the Topping L30, but you need to make sure you get a new production run model
https://reddit.com/r/headphones/comments/kwkh6z/topping_issues_recall_of_l30_amps_with_serial/
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I bought a Monolith Liquid Spark Headphone Amplifier on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B07JW7NSXT/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
It is supposed to arrive today so I can still return it.
Headphones are Beyerdynamic DT 990 Pros.
Considering I already used most of my budget on my amp my budget for a DAC would be somewhere in the < $100 range.
Would you suggest I return the amp and get an amp/DAC all-in-one?
I was looking at this but it seems like recent buyers are having issues with drivers on PC: https://www.amazon.ca/FiiO-Olympus-Headphone-Amplifier-Black/dp/B00LP3AMC2/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=dac&qid=1594315407&s=electronics&sr=1-3
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I love my Monolith Liquid Spark. Lots of power, maybe slightly warm sounding, nicely built and designed as one of Alex Cavelli’s last amps. I prefer it to the magni 3.
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https://www.amazon.com/Monolith-Liquid-Spark-Headphone-Amplifier/dp/B07JW7NSXT