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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: (Hopefully short) headphone journey by scooter on 2013-06-28 
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These days I am traveling frequently and relegated to listening to music via headphones and "portable" sources. I will briefly post my brief journey as a personal log. It might provide a starting point for those who might find themselves in the same ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? by Romy the Cat on 2005-11-25 
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The headphone amplifiers are mystery for me. Form one perspective it should be simple but from another perspective I never heard any interestingly performing headphones amplifiers. Well, I have to take it back probably as wherever I even heard differ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Re: Headphone amplifiers. Baby Melquiades? by livemusic on 2005-11-28 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  I wonder if anyone heard any deserving attention headphone amplifiers? Any further advise to a person who never imploded any dedicated headphone amps? [/quote]Did you have a chance to hear Single Power gears? I'm p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A headphone amp with 6E5P's puss? by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-03 
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[quote user="Chirag"] It seems the 6e5p is driving the transformer directly. I've used various versions of even simple mosfet followers to good effect at the headphone level, but never considered using a speaker level transformer.  Did you and D...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: A sudden headphone amp break through by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-03 
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[quote user="jamesrm618"]I wonder if this will resemble your final results [/quote]Thanks, James, it was fun…. Actually….it does look like I am on something with this Baby Melquiades project. First of all it is not Baby Melquiades anymore as it be...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Further interesting headphone amp observations. by Romy the Cat on 2006-01-03 
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As I was saying: who the hell need a headphone setup if it does not sound as good as the speakers setup? So it is the way in which I approach the headphone sound. The headphones intrinsically have problem with MF and “wrong bass”. There are ways to d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: My new Headphone Amplifier by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-26 
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Ok, the Headphone “Baby Melquiades” protect is over. Well, kind of over as there are some issues still are hanging in there. A brief summary. The initial idea was to use the Melquiades’ input stage to drive headphones.  Unfortunately it did not...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #19: Masochistic headphone amplifier! by Romy the Cat on 2006-03-28 
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After spending more time with my new headphone amplifier I decided to put it aside for time being. I have learned today that there is something g deeply wrong with it. It sounds quite fine before but today I actually has a first time not juts to “lis...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #20: Re: Masochistic headphone amplifier! by Thorsten on 2006-03-28 
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Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I have learned today that there is something g deeply wrong with it. [/quote]Not quite. What is wrong is not the Amplifier, but the use of headphones to replay recordings made for speaker reproduction. The way this pu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Re: Masochistic headphone amplifier! by Bud on 2006-03-28 
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Romy,Take a look at the output from the HP amp with a scope to make certain you do not have a high frequency oscillation in the amp. Under headphones this would be very seriously reinforced. Then check to see if you have a very low frequency oscillat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #26: My old headphone amp: the final verdict. by Romy the Cat on 2007-02-05 
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Over the course of the past year I was very slowly experimenting to the sound of my headphone amp. I know much more about it sound then I knew last year and I learned a lot more how to get “different” sound from it. The more amps ages and the more I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Interested in reading more of your headphone experiences by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-04-26 
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Headphones can help people build good cheap systems, and/or also not have to worry about the room, annoying others with loudness. There's some ground to cover that shouldn't be THAT hard or expensive. If you've "given up" on finding good headphone so...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: ATH-40fs and the most interesting headphone amps to me by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-05-02 
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Ok, I ordered this a day before making the thread, and got them yesterday. These are overall the best headphones I've used, having neutrality, details, and natural sound. What's important to note is that when you touch the back or inside, you don't r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: I guess there's a lesser of evils thing when it comes to headphone amp... by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-05-04 
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Ok, first off, I'm reading the second sentence of my previous post and soon after I posted it I knew something...it may sort of seem too directly rude and vulgar, but I guess there was this bad "humor" thing with some psychotic seriousness or unbalan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The Placette and headphone. My half-impedance rule. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-19 
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Yes, the Active Placette would drive headphone, still I do not like the sound. I get way more proper sound when Placette driver my “big” system then what is drivers headphone. I use headphone quite aggressively but mostly for “technical listening” (l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Just headphone listening so far by Antonio J. on 2009-05-02 
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I'm still in a burn-in phase. I'm having little time these days for some serious listening with loudspeakers, and the unit must have about 30 hours playing time. I have the DA-11 hooked to a headphone amplifier and I'm using different cans. As a tran...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #87: Headphone reference by zanon on 2009-12-02 
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No worries Mani.Interestingly enough, my "reference" is also headphones. They take you in a very different direction than speakers, which is maybe why we both have druids....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #89: Headphone vs Speakers by zanon on 2009-12-03 
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You may be even more right than you know. Going up the Grado line in $$$ you get more and More and MORE HF.: P...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Headphone mixed album? by zanon on 2010-06-17 
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Does anyone know of CD mixed especially for headphone?Maybe two mics, 6 inches apart, is the correct way to record for such a playback system....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Interesting headphone blender by scooter on 2011-08-03 
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Hi Paul,SPL out of Germany seems to have some interesting blending functions on their headphone amplifier. Not sure if they have other products that better suit your needs and didn't look to see if they are doing the processing in the digital or anal...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: Headphone amp? Purpose? by Romy the Cat on 2012-09-24 
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It is unquestionably an ambiguous project. The topmost question that I would ask myself after this project would be the following: can Milq-biased 6E5P to be as good (sound-wise) DC driver as some vintage direct heated tubes. I did ask thin question ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: (Hopefully short) headphone journey by scooter on 2013-06-28 
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These days I am traveling frequently and relegated to listening to music via headphones and "portable" sources. I will briefly post my brief journey as a personal log. It might provide a starting point for those who might find themselves in the same ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Chaos & instantenous current: Implicataions for headphone and full... by scooter on 2013-06-28 
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[quote user="N-set"]On the collapse, I did not experience anything that drastic so far...but I do get a lot of irritating chaos on complicated loud passages. At this moment I tend to blame the amplifier (a characteristic "breaking" of the solid state...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Headphone output by steverino on 2014-05-12 
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But didn't Romy say up above that he was running it out of the headphone output not the regular back panel outputs? Or did I misunderstand? He specifically complained about the headphones as lacking low end back in the day....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #465: End of life headphone system by steverino on 2015-09-02 
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Well, I need to admit that with arriving Thomas and to a degree with adopting Amy my relationship with my listening room have changed. It is not the relationship change but the volume that listening room occupies in my d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Headphone DAC by Amir on 2016-04-01 
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I searched the net for headphone DAC/amp and i found it.i have no idea about the sound . what "r2r discrete" mean?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #265: The headphone analogy by kodomo on 2017-12-05 
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I heard the same not just from one but from a few guys for my playback as well! I think it is because of the all encompassing effect and the strength of the stereo image. Most people have never heard that strong of a phantom centre, or an orchestra a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Here's where I stand now and what my future goals are by SearcherOfBetterSound on 2007-04-26 
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Hmmm...let's see, I'm pretty young, to the point where I don't have any major source of money income, so I do with what I can when I can and want to, just like many other suffering young and/or poor audiophiles. It's like this, I don't listen to any ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: The Placette and headphone. My half-impedance rule. by Romy the Cat on 2008-04-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
Yes, the Active Placette would drive headphone, still I do not like the sound. I get way more proper sound when Placette driver my “big” system then what is drivers headphone. I use headphone quite aggressively but mostly for “technical listening” (l...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: A headphone amp with 6E5P's puss? by Romy the Cat on 2005-12-03 
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[quote user="Chirag"] It seems the 6e5p is driving the transformer directly. I've used various versions of even simple mosfet followers to good effect at the headphone level, but never considered using a speaker level transformer.  Did you and D...
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