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That's the first thing that came to my mind.

I got a tiny amplifier for my portable DVD player because the sound is absurdly low(Toshiba) but basically headphones are all about going deaf early.

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Those are studio quality headphones and have high impedance. The higher the impedance the lower the sound. Some headphones are like 600ohms and sound like the phones are broken because the sound is like a whisper.