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Head phones?
- Thread starter machineman
- Start date
machineman
Member
Thanks Grouser, thats the kind of answer I was looking for. I made my set with a 8 ohm speaker. I have a higher ohm one on order.
ToddB64
Active member
machineman,
Looking through my computer Documents files I found several replies that I had saved from Rudy when the Headphones Clinic was running at Friendly Metal Detecting. See the fourth paragraph down in one of his replies that I uploaded, starting with "For maximum efficiency".
I picked out a few more paragraphs of information that I thought might interest you from some of his other replies and rather than upload the full replies, I just retyped those particular paragraphs below (colored for identification).
I asked Rudy why so many of the headphones are 150 Ohms and he replied as follows: " the higher impedance they use makes their design work well across a large cross section of detectors. The main thing is to not buy a low impedance headphone. Once you are past the 60 Ohm range, going higher is not necessary, but it doesn't hurt."
Ohms is the unit-of-measure for impedance. Impedance is a way to describe how difficult it is for a current to flow in a circuit. In other words it "impedes" the flow of the current. The larger the impedance, the more difficult it is for the current to flow.
Hope this helps !
ToddB64
Looking through my computer Documents files I found several replies that I had saved from Rudy when the Headphones Clinic was running at Friendly Metal Detecting. See the fourth paragraph down in one of his replies that I uploaded, starting with "For maximum efficiency".
I picked out a few more paragraphs of information that I thought might interest you from some of his other replies and rather than upload the full replies, I just retyped those particular paragraphs below (colored for identification).
I asked Rudy why so many of the headphones are 150 Ohms and he replied as follows: " the higher impedance they use makes their design work well across a large cross section of detectors. The main thing is to not buy a low impedance headphone. Once you are past the 60 Ohm range, going higher is not necessary, but it doesn't hurt."
Ohms is the unit-of-measure for impedance. Impedance is a way to describe how difficult it is for a current to flow in a circuit. In other words it "impedes" the flow of the current. The larger the impedance, the more difficult it is for the current to flow.
Hope this helps !
ToddB64