I was stuck around 8-8:30 with my IEMs through the iEMatch headphone out before getting the stand alone iEMatch. Not awful, but that's very close to where the nano still has some noticeable channel imbalance. Now I can safely get to around 10 o'clock. All is well.
The other option was upgrading to micro, but I'm glad to stick with the cheaper and cuter nano.
Nah, it makes sense to me at least. The toggle on the cable seems worlds more durable than the ones build into the iDSD units. Despite a few trips to the repair centre I still have trouble with the IEMatch switch on mine, which is unfortunate. Placement on the bottom was one of the worse design choices on this thing.
And yup, iFi's stuff jets out gobs of power that are hell on sensitive transducers.
I wasn't actually thinking about toggling the switch on the cable much, but I could. Would probably only have to if I went for the most meme worthy setup and plugged the iEMatch cable into the iEMatch headphone out which I did experiment with last night. Gets my IEMs into the 11 - 1 o'clock range on the volume pot. I think that gets the volume reduction to -36dB or so.
So you'd basically have to flip on Turbo mode to get any decent volume out of it then, yeah? :P
Kidding aside, I actually forgot that the new Nano BL had a dedicated IEMatch out, so that's egg on my face, haha. I do wonder whether there are any sonic differences between the direct out > external IEMatch and the built-in one, but that'd be Machina Dynamica Pebbles-level nervosa perhaps
I think it could matter on some IEMs as I believe the iEMatch on the nano is <4ohm and -12dB. The iEMatch cable is listed is <2.5ohm and -12dB on 'high' and <1ohm and -24dB on 'ultra'. Very low ohm IEMs like the Andro and Solaris may have some fairly significant changes in sound.
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