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| Headphone Amps (full-size) Discussion of desktop headphone amps. |
08-16-2005, 02:02 AM
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http://www.evilfire.com good?
im looking for and amp that will increase the volume from my laptop. When watching movies or music in the car I barely cant hear a thing (integrated soundcard btw). I just have two simple questions for you;
1. will these help me?
2. is the price alright?
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08-16-2005, 02:12 AM
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For what you're doing, yes it will work. If you don't care about sound quality really, you might as well just buy a CHEAP cmoy on eBay (or any cheap amplifier in general).
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08-16-2005, 02:15 AM
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ofcourse i do, but since i dont really have a lot of money it has to be second. Most important is that i can actually hear something 
What about the soundquality of these?
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08-16-2005, 02:19 AM
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Headphoneus Supremus
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depends, since they're only amplifying the source signal, the results may be better, worse, or the same.
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08-16-2005, 02:30 AM
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this might be a hard question (hopefully my last) to answer but here it goes. will it make it just a litle bit higher or much higher? i mean will i have to max it?
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08-16-2005, 02:56 AM
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depends on the gain of the amp and the headphones you'll be using. (the amp builder will work it out with you) My guess i that it will allow it to go loud. I don't think I've ever had an amp, even a low-end one, that didn't go louder than my ears could handle.
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08-16-2005, 03:42 AM
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Why would he not care about sound quality? CMoys don't sound good 
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08-16-2005, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Dummedanne
im looking for and amp that will increase the volume from my laptop. When watching movies or music in the car I barely cant hear a thing (integrated soundcard btw).
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What type of headphones do you have? Are you trying to compensate for the road noise? Have you considered more isolation (i.e. IEMs?)?
The reason I bring this up, if you compensate the road noise with an amp, that could lead to hearing damage...
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08-16-2005, 04:09 AM
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Headphoneus Supremus
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Why would he not care about sound quality? CMoys don't sound good |
If all he needs is increased volume, and if his headphones aren't up to par.. then why bother with something like a Gilmore Lite :-p.
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Amplifiers : Singlepower ES-1 · Aristaeus, GS-1, GLite · Woo GES · Pass Labs Aleph 3 · AudioValve RKV MKII · Stello HP100 · Stax 007t · ATH DHA3000 · Dynahi-SA
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08-16-2005, 09:20 AM
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Maybe you could imcrease the volume for movies using a filter like AC3Filter. Movies seem often quite low in volume (I guess because of the wider dynamic range of 24 Bit). This would certainly be the cheapest solution (for free...).
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08-16-2005, 09:44 AM
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theyre just like any other cmoy amp on ebay,
but they use cooler tins.
cant get any cooler then a hello kitty cmoy
(Im serious BTW)
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08-16-2005, 01:20 PM
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i have philips hp840 at them moment. WIll change to closed ones. ANy ideas of headphones, closed around 50$ (all i can afford atm)..
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08-16-2005, 02:26 PM
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Headphoneus Supremus:
Good stuff!
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Informative thread. Thanks very much.
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08-16-2005, 02:35 PM
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If all he needs is increased volume, and if his headphones aren't up to par.. then why bother with something like a Gilmore Lite :-p.
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agreed
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