ipod nano 5th require 32 ohm headphones?

The specs should be available on the apple website but 16 ohm should give you a louder sound which means more volume and possibly the ability to overdrive the volume and the solution is to lower the volume. You will want to lower the volume anyway because 16 ohm headphones can get to loud at higher volume levels. If you know anything about how to calculate power then you would see that lower ohms gives you more current and current multiplied by voltage gives power. Lower ohms means louder sound and more volume but 8 ohms would probably give you to much volume and require twice as much power as 16 ohms and four times as much power as 32 ohms. This effect of very low ohm headphones would make the volume to sensitive and would go from soft to loud with very little volume adjustment. I was looking for a pair of 16 ohm headphones for my iphone and had some for my ipod classic and ipod first generation and liked the extra volume that they provided but the cord broke and now I can only find 32 ohm headphones.... 16 ohm headphones should work for any ipod.


Paul