Jacek’s Burson Conductor 3X Performance with HiFiMAN HE1000se

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Burson Conductor 3X Performance with Super Charger 3A plays very well with HiFiMan HE-1000SE

The System

Listening with

HiFiMAN HE1000se · Headphones: open-back, planar magnetic, circumaural
  • Impedance: 35 Ω
  • Sensitivity: 96 dB (reference not stated by HiFiMAN)
  • Frequency response: 8 Hz – 65 kHz
  • Plugs / cables supplied: not published (HiFiMAN spec page lists no connector)
  • Other: weight 440 g

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Burson

Burson Conductor 3X Performance · DAC / headphone amplifier / preamp · discontinued
  • Output power (XLR / SE): 16 Ω 6 W / 3 W · 32 Ω 3 W / 1.5 W · 100 Ω 1 W / 0.5 W · 150 Ω 0.66 W / 0.33 W · 300 Ω 0.33 W / 0.115 W
  • Output impedance: 0.5 Ω (headphone); 1 Ω (pre out); 25 Ω (DAC out)
  • Output voltage: RCA 2 V (DAC out) · XLR not published
  • Gain: High / Low; dB not published
  • Inputs: USB (XMOS; PCM to 768 kHz/32-bit, native DSD512); Toslink; Bluetooth 5.0 aptX HD; microphone
  • Input impedance: 39 kΩ
  • Outputs: XLR + RCA pre/DAC out; 6.35 mm + 4-pin XLR headphone
  • DAC / chipset: ESS ES9038Q2M (x1)
  • Other: Model M180X (3XP); THD <0.0015%; FR ±1 dB 0-58 kHz

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Burson Super Charger 3A · Power supply (24 V DC)
  • Other: 24 V / 3 A; noise floor <1 µV; 2.5 mm barrel plug, centre positive; 100-240 V AC in

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Specs from manufacturer data unless a source below says otherwise. “calc.” values are worked out from those figures (V = √(P × R); 110 dB SPL used as a loud reference level). Gear listed without specs is not in our spec library yet.

  1. HiFiMAN HE1000se: hifiman.com
  2. Burson Conductor 3X Performance product page
  3. Burson Conductor 3X Performance User Manual V1.7 (Burson downloads)
  4. Burson Super Charger 3A product page (super-charger-3a page)
  5. Burson Super Charger 3A product page (super-charger-3a page, archived 2021)