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Head Phone Amps

Is this a trick question? :D









Give us a price range and an application please. ;)
 
All depends on how much you're willing to spend ;)

Do you want to build your own or buying a premade? What are you driving out of it? Oh the fun :p
 
I know someday when I have the spare cash to throw at a real set of cans I'll kick ye ole X86 for a good handmade amp....
 
If you have a receiver and some talent your set. Get a mini box from Radio Snatch and a ¼ headphone jack. Solder a pair of 100 watt 100 ohm resistors (wire wound resistors are best for this) across each channel’s positive and negative. Run speaker wire from the jack to your speaker out on your receiver. Bingo, affordable headphone amp.

The alternative is type headphone+amp into google and be prepared to spend from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars.

I have an old Nagra I’m sort of fond of :D
 
you should give the forum moderator mister x a pm =P, he makes great headphone amps.
 
I read about making your own amps but I didn't know it was done a lot. I think i want to do it the [H] way and save some money while im at it.

anyone have some good links and/or tips on how to make one? I've never done any real soldering like this so treat me like a totaly newb :cool:

and headsave.com doenst work
 
nice article, I'm gonna try it. Any one of you guys made one yet and how did it go?
 
MaMMa said:
nice article, I'm gonna try it. Any one of you guys made one yet and how did it go?
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I've done the soldering for a CMOY (had one dumb wiring problem, thanks Mister X). Thats what most people reccomend for beginners, check that one out.

-fool
 
After reading the article (mainly the inventory needed for this project, haven't gotten to assembly yet), and being a newb, I'm not quite understanding. I'm on a tight budget and would like this more to be a learning experience and I dont need it top end as of yet.
Anyways, here is what I am confused about. This one is for the $20-25 budget:

http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy-tutorial/20bucks.html

Then another topic "Part Lists and Suggestions Required Parts":

http://www.tangentsoft.net/audio/cmoy-tutorial/parts.html#req

So What all do I need? The list under the $20 only or do I need all the other "required" goods?
 
You won't be able to make it at $20 using that. Everything is there, but the resistors are a bit extra because of the minimum purchase at digikey, you can probably get a grab bag instead from radioshack and match them yourself.
 
Ok I'm still confused.

On the $20 link, it has resisters in it also, why would I need to get more?

edit:

damn so its gonna run me a little more, i have most of the tools already. I just want to know the exact parts i need for the amp excluding the tools
 
so how come he has a link for one that cost only 20-25 dollars?
 
Just read the page. Tangent went to the trouble of writing it. If you want to answer your questions, then you should read it.
 
Read, read a lot of this headphone amp stuff. Check out www.head-fi.org, www.headwize.com, and tangent's pages which you've already been using. Browse around those and just read up on the basic amps, schematics, and workings. You'll gradually start learning, I promise.

It worked for me! :) I also had great help from Mister X (thanks again), forum members here, and at head-fi. Just read up on the stuff and you'll start learning.

Good luck.

-fool
 
If you don't have a soldering iron or a multimeter, you can get a nice hakko 937 clone and a DMM for about $60 after shipping here: http://www.circuitspecialists.com/

Mine just came in today, looks like a great soldering station and a decent (free) multimeter.
 
Some of us have a different notion of what sexy is. :D

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Mister X said:
Some of us have a different notion of what sexy is. :D
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Agreed. :D What do the left/right channel LED setups do X? Looks great, by the way.

Thanks!

-fool
 
BillR said:
If you have a receiver and some talent your set. Get a mini box from Radio Snatch and a ¼ headphone jack. Solder a pair of 100 watt 100 ohm resistors (wire wound resistors are best for this) across each channel’s positive and negative. Run speaker wire from the jack to your speaker out on your receiver. Bingo, affordable headphone amp.
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would that seriously work?
ive got my headphones hooked up to my dads old 480W Pioneer stereo amp, through one of 3.5mm Female to 1/4" Male Adaptors (it does the job)
would it sound better going through the the speaker outs?
 
What do the left/right channel LED setups do X?
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Input level display.
Its just some amp bling bling is all. :)


would that seriously work?
ive got my headphones hooked up to my dads old 480W Pioneer stereo amp, through one of 3.5mm Female to 1/4" Male Adaptors (it does the job)
would it sound better going through the the speaker outs?
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Most likely the amp has the same setup inside of it. This is exactly how most cheap amps incorporate a headphone out ... and it is also why the headphone out on many amps/recivers suck.
BTW This solution is commonly referred to as an impeder. ;)
 
Mister X said:
Input level display.
Its just some amp bling bling is all. :)
. ;)
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That's pretty cool X. So does it just the input level just measure how much/the amplitue of the left or right channel and output it in a bar graph (via leds) format? Did you design the circuit yourself?

And I might as well ask now, ask I'll end up asking later; what case is that? PAr-metals right? What model number? Thanks again!

-fool
 
So does it just the input level just measure how much/the amplitue of the left or right channel and output it in a bar graph (via leds) format?
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Yea pretty much.

Did you design the circuit yourself?
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Nope, it's pretty much a standard LM3915 implemenataion.
There are a few new tweaks that I (with a suggestion from Tangent )added but they were just to make it play nice with the PPA. ;)

And yeas that is a Par-Metal's 20 series case.
I forget the exact part number.... I will have to look it up. :)

What is the status on your amps BTW?
 
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