Quote: Thank you. That's what I wanted to hear. My only full size cans are 80ohm DT770s so I should be good. I just wanted to know if i was gonna have to use the line out with my cmoy, but it sounds like I won't. I do like a lot of power however and will definitely be pushing the...

I just went ahead and ordered a FiiO E10 after hearing it's fine for 80ohm DT770s. I hope this is true. Anyone have any comments?

Exactly what the topic says, I have DT770s and I'm looking for an external DAC.   I'm using a Chaintech AV-710 right now and there's bad noise/clipping before I even reach acceptable volumes, even from the line out. I think this is because the DT's require so much amping but also definitely...

Quote:   I'm certain it is now. Look at this photo http://i.imgur.com/M9tJE.jpg Can clearly see the ground traces(pink) going to the top and bottom (respectively) of the power poles(green).   EDIT: I see you've edited your post as well. Thanks again for the help, your time and...

Thanks.. I already mentioned how one of the positive and negative terminals were linked and that I assumed they were the ground, like ... three times, but no one seemed to notice or reply to that so I didn't know. That's seriously all I needed to know, sorry if I seemed angry, I wasn't. Just...

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Quote:Originally Posted by TheLaw  This is a diode rectifier bridge:   It's very simple. You hook up the AC to the middle two legs, and then you have a negative and a positive. That's all there is to it. You COULD make your own diode bridge, but it takes more time and thinking. These are...

Quote:     Thanks for the suggestion but uh yeah.. I did mention that I've tried it with my receiver (which is hooked up to the soundcard via TOSLink) and the signal still sounds very dirty coming out of the headphone output on the receiver.. so either my receiver has a really dirty...

Thanks again for the help, it does look pretty simple. I wouldn't be surprised if I have a 12vac transformer just like that around here somewhere. However I'm confused about the rectifier part, is that just diodes to stop the current flow? Also I'm confused about how it would connect to the...

Quote: Yes, it's battery powered at the moment which is why I'm saying it's some sort of interference. I don't know what to do other than get some sort of line cleaner for my desktop/receiver?  

That sounds a bit in depth for me, if not overkill for such a simple amp? I don't have much experience when working with electronics on a scale like this so I'd like things to be as simple as possible.. here's what I used for my last cmoy and the way it accomplishes its power supply...

Not sure if this is dirty power or interference or what. It might be two separate problems..   Basically I have a cmoy headphone amp. It's entirely silent when powered on and plugged into my DAP or similar.. but..   When plugged into my desktop's soundcard's (Chaintech AV-710) line out...

Here is a link to the schematic/diagram http://www.5mv.com/ebay/banzaivcm-1306042668-36729.jpg   Basically as you can see it runs on 2x9v batteries. I wish to run it off a DC transformer as well.. Short of using two transformers which seems dumb, can't I just use an 18v transformer...

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Title says it all.   My current card (AV-710) can only do 48khz passthrough output and doesn't do surround sound gaming at all.   Don't get me wrong, it sounds fine and it plays AC3/DTS surround movies fine.. but it requires using MPC with AC3Filter resampling AC3/DTS surround sound...