Burson Conductor 3X with Sennheiser HD 800 S

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So far so good. The sound is so much better than listening directly to my Fiio M11 pro using my Sennheiser HD800S. I’ve bought a USB C to USB C to connect my Fiio and Android phone but it is not working. Any help is much appreciated.

The System

Listening with

Sennheiser HD 800 S · Headphones: open-back, dynamic, circumaural
  • Impedance: 300 Ω
  • Sensitivity: 102 dB SPL @ 1 V ≈ 96.8 dB/mW (calc.)
  • Frequency response: 4 Hz – 51 kHz
  • Plugs / cables supplied: 6.35 mm unbalanced; 4.4 mm balanced

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Burson

Burson Conductor 3X · DAC / headphone amplifier / preamp family (Conductor 3X Performance / 3X Reference / 3X GT) · discontinued
  • Output impedance: 0.5 Ω (headphone); 1 Ω (pre out); 25 Ω (DAC out)
  • Output voltage: RCA 2 V (DAC out)
  • Gain: High / Low; dB not published
  • Inputs: USB (XMOS; PCM to 768 kHz/32-bit, native DSD512); Toslink; Bluetooth 5.0 aptX HD; microphone (3XR / 3XGT add analogue and coaxial inputs)
  • Outputs: XLR pre / DAC out; 6.35 mm + 4-pin XLR headphone
  • DAC / chipset: ESS ES9038Q2M / ES9038 (1x in 3XP, 2x in 3XR / 3XGT)
  • Other: 3XP (M180X): 6/3 W @16 Ω, 3/1.5 W @32 (bal/SE), 1x ES9038Q2M. 3XR (R180X): 7.5/3.75 W @16, 5/2.5 W @32, 2x ES9038Q2M. 3XGT (R-181X): 10/5 W @16, 8/4 W @32, 2x ES9038. All THD <0.0015%, FR ±1 dB 0-58 kHz.

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Also in the system

FiiO M11 Pro

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. Sennheiser HD 800 S: us.sennheiser-hearing.com
  2. Burson Conductor 3X product page (conductor-3x-performance page, archived 2020)
  3. Burson Conductor 3X product page (conductor-3x page, archived 2019)
  4. Burson Conductor 3X product page (conductor-3x-gt page, archived 2022)