erwin
New Head-Fier
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i'm going to continue using my laptop as a primary music source. that's all i know. i've come to this decision today. a while ago my headphone jack broke off while still in my headphone out, so there's still a little part of metal in my headphone-out, and i can't get it out. i've tried everything. my laptop is out of warranty, and i do not wish to bring it in and pay a shitload just to have my headphone/speaker socket replaced.
so now might be as good a time as any to upgrade to a good laptop amplifier/dac. only problem is: i have no clue how or what i'm looking at. so i've chopped up these questions into different parts and anyone crazy enough to answer them all will receive free drugs and/or beer whenever they're in belgium, i promise you.
try and keep everything as cheap as possible when recommending stuff, but keep in mind that i'm not afraid to spend, as long as i know it's quality and my looped electronic soundscapes will sound ****ing AWESOME because of said spending.
1/ i have a robust, big oldschool denon amplifier and two rather ace wooden speakers my dad built years ago. but no means to connect them to my laptop after the jack got stuck in the headphone out. so, first of all, how do i continue to listen to my laptop through that denon amplifier and those speakers? do i put something between my laptop and the amplifier? like an usb dac? is a dac useful when using an oldschool amplifier? can you recommend me something here?
2/ so with speakers out of the way, i want to buy a solid, good set of cans for my laptop, and while i'm at it amplify/dac (is this not the same, btw, dac and amplifier? i'm a rookie here) so i don't waste good money on a set of audio-technicas or sennheisers while not using them to their fullest potential. am i right in thinking that the amplifier/inbetween piece i'm buying to hook up my denon amplifier will work for my phones as well? so again the same usb thing should do it, right? or am i completely wrong here?
3/ i have recently purchased an ipod touch, and would like to know if i can amplify this ipod touch in any way? don't need to do this when on the road (last thing i need is something else in my pocket) but for home use. hook up my ipod to speakers or headphones and listen to it amplified, how do i do this? can i hook up my denon oldschool amplifier in any way?
i've looked at the headroom's total bithead and total airhead but can't understand a ****ing word they're saying.
so yeah just help me, for the love of god i'm going crazy here, i'm a neurotic and this kind of uncertainty is really unhealthy for me, y'know
so now might be as good a time as any to upgrade to a good laptop amplifier/dac. only problem is: i have no clue how or what i'm looking at. so i've chopped up these questions into different parts and anyone crazy enough to answer them all will receive free drugs and/or beer whenever they're in belgium, i promise you.
try and keep everything as cheap as possible when recommending stuff, but keep in mind that i'm not afraid to spend, as long as i know it's quality and my looped electronic soundscapes will sound ****ing AWESOME because of said spending.
1/ i have a robust, big oldschool denon amplifier and two rather ace wooden speakers my dad built years ago. but no means to connect them to my laptop after the jack got stuck in the headphone out. so, first of all, how do i continue to listen to my laptop through that denon amplifier and those speakers? do i put something between my laptop and the amplifier? like an usb dac? is a dac useful when using an oldschool amplifier? can you recommend me something here?
2/ so with speakers out of the way, i want to buy a solid, good set of cans for my laptop, and while i'm at it amplify/dac (is this not the same, btw, dac and amplifier? i'm a rookie here) so i don't waste good money on a set of audio-technicas or sennheisers while not using them to their fullest potential. am i right in thinking that the amplifier/inbetween piece i'm buying to hook up my denon amplifier will work for my phones as well? so again the same usb thing should do it, right? or am i completely wrong here?
3/ i have recently purchased an ipod touch, and would like to know if i can amplify this ipod touch in any way? don't need to do this when on the road (last thing i need is something else in my pocket) but for home use. hook up my ipod to speakers or headphones and listen to it amplified, how do i do this? can i hook up my denon oldschool amplifier in any way?
i've looked at the headroom's total bithead and total airhead but can't understand a ****ing word they're saying.
so yeah just help me, for the love of god i'm going crazy here, i'm a neurotic and this kind of uncertainty is really unhealthy for me, y'know