This may seem like a dumb question but...

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

Do different styles of headphones drain different amounts of power from an MP3 player? I hate earbuds and i fell in love with the bose Quiet Comfort 2 headphones after demo'ing them for a few hours. I just don't want to drain my blackberry's battery in like an hour because of the headphones.

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[tapout 5,000+ posts]

Good question.

srsly.

 

[vehementSPL 10+ year member]

I know a limited amount about head phones. But I would guess with drivers being different sizes and having different back pressures depending on shape an size. And some headphones using different imped. then I would guess yes it could vary. But how much.... that is to anybodys guess

 

[Cabin_Pressure 10+ year member]

In to learn.

 

[IDSkoT 5,000+ posts]

I don't think so... unless head phones have different imp's... but I think they're all probably 4 or 8.

But the size of the driver doesn't matter... just the impedance... The player is the one that's actually producing the power, so I'm sure the power draw depending on the head phones is purely based on the impedance of the drivers.

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

shouldn't, think of the ipod like an amplifier, the headphones are your speakers and you're just plugging them into the outputs of the amplifier

 

[NightDrifter05 10+ year member]

Don't really know for sure but my DD ear buds don't drain my Ipod battery any quicker then any of the other headphones I own. But then again I don't own anything like the bose. All I own are the DD ear buds, the Ipod ear buds, and the Sennheiser HD201.

 

[MmatsDude 10+ year member]

you should get a d3100 hooked up to ur mp3, i know it'll be heavy to carry that shi't along with u but its worth a try

FTW

 

[vgeek 10+ year member]

No, you can get amplifiers for headphones, but they run on their own battery and are separate from the player and the headphones, and are expensive.

 

[lincolntc690 10+ year member]

unless its regulated

and i have head phones that are 8, 16, and 32 ohms

 

[lincolntc690 10+ year member]

sorry double post

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

you should get a d3100 hooked up to ur mp3, i know it'll be heavy to carry that shi't along with u but its worth a tryFTW

yeah....i don't think that would fly (no pun int.) on an airline flight

 

[gotparts90 10+ year member]

they do I get good life with shure but didn't with bose tri what evers. I think the shures are 32 ohm some are 24. the better your ear buds are sealed the loweer the volume you need to use and the less power it drains. Also letting the song play and not searching around helps keep ipods working longer.

I went over this issue a lot because i wanted it to last an 8 hour day while glass beading parts at my old job.

 

[bonesninja 5,000+ posts]

they do I get good life with shure but didn't with bose tri what evers. I think the shures are 32 ohm some are 24. the better your ear buds are sealed the loweer the volume you need to use and the less power it drains. Also letting the song play and not searching around helps keep ipods working longer.
I went over this issue a lot because i wanted it to last an 8 hour day while glass beading parts at my old job.

i only have a blackberry..no ipod. its either the bose or the senn's i saw at sears

 

[ngsm13 5,000+ posts]

Impedance...

nG