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I'm no audio expert, but I feel like "audiophile headphones" and "headphones you can power directly from a steam deck" are probably mutually exclusive
Not necessarily, some high-end headphones manage to have a low resistance and high sensitivity combo and are easy to "drive" without a dedicated amp.
I use planar headphones which are not too bad to drive, but most of the time I need some extra power. The deck actually is capable of blowing my eardrums out still
Impedance and audio quality are not intrinsically linked.
I'm betting that it can drive 250Ω headphones. Verifying.
EDIT: Yup. DT990s actually doing pretty decent.
EDIT 2: Not that I expect that OOP has actually nice-sounding and comfortable cans (the latter, along with repairability, is the reason that I have em in the first place), since they referred to them as "audiophile" headphones.
There are good headphones that can work with a headphone jack.