Headphones

[joetama 5,000+ posts]

Decware has a pre-built headphone amp, but it's pricey @ $600ish.
Bottlehead has a kit for $380.

You could probably assemble all the parts to build one yourself for under $200.

Decent, I might have to give that a look... I just went and looked at the Decware one and was thinking that was a bit pricey.... I really never seriously thought about the tube amp until you mentioned it. I might talk to my grandfather about building one, he used to build his own amps in the 50's and 60's for pro/home audio....

 

[brandontw 10+ year member]

i have the same phonse as you, i dont use an amp for them but whenever i get around to it im going to build one of these:

http://tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy-tutorial/

they are supposed to be dang good little amps actually, especially for the money.

 

[Scoobydoo 5,000+ posts]

i have a friend who has a cmoy op amp for sale if you dont want to build it yourself, think he wants $50, it is in an altoids tin

 

[Shugarra 10+ year member]

Hey, I work for a place called HeadRoom (headphone.com) and we manufacture headphone amplifiers. They are a little pricey, I'll give that, but very honestly they are of good quality. The lowest end line has a plastic enclosure, but you can get one with a built in usb dac for $199, and we have a 30 day return policy if you don't like it.

I totally realize I probably sound like a corporate shill, but I'm just trying to help out. And, by the way, if you ever look to upgrade your headphones go with the AKG 701s. We have demo pairs of every headphone we sell that the staff can listen to and almost every single person there prefers the 701 to everything else we sell.

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Sweet.

nG

 

[Beat_Dominator 5,000+ posts]

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/word.gif.64b12e39f936af3b4fff38a1c0bd0244.gif Headroom pwns.

 

[xluben 10+ year member]

yeah, i'm a member at head-fi also. i would definitely go there for headphone amp suggesttions.

i have the super.fi 5eb's and most of the koss 60 ohms cans. for amps i have a pa2v2 and a few cmoy's that i've made. (yeah i know it's all budget stuff) but i'm not into headphones that much right now, maybe more after school starts up full time and i'll be using them more.

 

[Hebrew Hammer 10+ year member]

Hey, I work for a place called HeadRoom (headphone.com) and we manufacture headphone amplifiers. They are a little pricey, I'll give that, but very honestly they are of good quality. The lowest end line has a plastic enclosure, but you can get one with a built in usb dac for $199, and we have a 30 day return policy if you don't like it.
I totally realize I probably sound like a corporate shill, but I'm just trying to help out. And, by the way, if you ever look to upgrade your headphones go with the AKG 701s. We have demo pairs of every headphone we sell that the staff can listen to and almost every single person there prefers the 701 to everything else we sell.

Dude.....

How dare you introduce me into another world of hifi.....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

MOD's please erase his post.....//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/naughty.gif.94359f346c0f1259df8038d60b41863e.gif

 

[T3mpest 10+ year member]

heaphones are sexy, imagine a perfect listening environment... No, PLD's or cancellation, just pure sound, gotta love it. Once I finish my car I'm uprgrading again, I'm using 650's right now.