The amp specs for the THX 789 are beyond impressive, .
How are they "beyond impressive"? I'm genuinely curious when asking this question. I'm not fairly knowledgeable when it comes to audio gear, but from what I've been taught headphone scalability with more powerful amps are considered a very real thing. For example, the Argon (T50RP mod) I have, supposedly sounds very nice up to 5-6 watts of power (all Planars tend to like a lot of juice).
But all the various amps recommended on this forum seem to be on the lower side of the spectrum, when it comes to power. Take for example, the THX 789, which supposedly has "amp specs....beyond impressive" -- at least for the ones recommended on this forum. It has
Balanced Output power: 6000 mW @ 32 ohms,
Single-Ended output power: 1800 mW @ 32 ohms
How is that impressive? That means I would probably get somewhere around 3000 mW output on my Argon (53 ohm) on Balanced, or 900 mW on Single-Ended. For comparison, the NFB 11.28, which I previously owned, provided 1800 mW in single-ended output power at 50 ohms.
Again, I'm not writing this to shit on anybody, but I'm genuinely interested. I really appreciate this forum and the reviews being conducted here, and have a very high regard of it. But I find it really difficult to find a good headphone amp (or DAC/Amp) to buy myself, from those that have been tested on this forum, as they all seem to be fairly lean when it comes to output power (like the RME ADI-2 Pro, which costs a massive amount of money and has a fairly weak amplifier from the specifications I found -- maybe that's why they never its mention output in the majority of the sites it's being sold on). Is there something I'm missing here? Is the whole "you need powerful amps" claim just pure bullshit, or is it that the general audience in here carry audio equipment that don't need to a lot of power?