[Bassix]

My cousin recently decided to take his FiiO E11 and some offbrand $25 amp that isn't bad, and used a modded splitter cable so he could plug his ipod into both, and started modding his beats detachable cable so it could plug into both amps...He is going to txt me how it works when he finishes, but I'm curious on what this will do, whether it will do nothing, make a messed up sound, make it even better? Any clues on What is gonna happen besides probably breaking both the amps and/or the headphones?

 

[Bill-P]

So are you saying that he is going to connect two amps to the same source and then drive one headphone from two different outputs?

 

[bowei006]

and not only that but have one channel be amped by one amp..and one by another different amp?
 
genius
 
haha lol but anybody see the potential of ABXing in real time with this? testing amp capabilities for real..and cheaply lol

 

[Bill-P]

You could make a DIY switch to do A/B. I'm sure someone has already done it.
 
What I'm kind of confused about is from the OP, it sounded like it wasn't just one amp per channel.

 

[Bassix]

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So are you saying that he is going to connect two amps to the same source and then drive one headphone from two different outputs?

 
Yes, he has 2 amps. He is connecting both amps to the same ipod using a splitter cable. He is then connecting both amps to his headphones using another splitter cable
 
         Amp 1
Ipod<             >Headphones
         Amp 2
 
He still haven't tested, he is tweaking the headphone cable atm

 

[J.Pocalypse]

I think it'd be better/easier, if you just rewired the headphones for balanced in put and bought an amp with balanced out put. If your friend isn't using the same exact amp in the experiment, each side will sound some what different. But given that they're using Beats, maybe not.

 

[Swatcsi]

So he could use one of these to connect the headphone to the two amps:

And buy another one and connect a 3.5mm->3.5mm cable for the iPod to the amps?
 
This seems interesting...

 
Quote:

 
Yes, he has 2 amps. He is connecting both amps to the same ipod using a splitter cable. He is then connecting both amps to his headphones using another splitter cable
 
         Amp 1
Ipod<             >Headphones
         Amp 2
 
He still haven't tested, he is tweaking the headphone cable atm