[PePa68]

Hi everybody

I try to find a good, but economically feasible, hedphone set to my kid.

We already have a couple of headphones (Grado Rs-1, Sr-125, Senns HD600). Now I want to find a pre or integrated amp with internal headphone amp. Or even better if you can name a cd player with good hp out.

The budget bounder will lie at 1000 eur(or usd) level (the higher bound of course) for the whole set (cd or cd+preamp or cd+integrated). The reason why I don't use headphone amp in this set, is that I'm going to use it also with active speakers (Genelec 8030).

Any good ideas?

Sincerely,
Pale

 

[mrarroyo]

Have you thought of getting a vintage receiver by marantz, technics, philips, etc in Ebay?

 

[McRat]

I don't think you can find a decent enough headphone output in a cd-player. I would go with a good cdp and a separate headphone amp with preamp functionality.

I leave the naming of the possible contenders to the more experienced members...

 

[McRat]

It seems our good Dr. Meier at Meier-Audio has a sale at the moment. How about one of these amps to do most of the business? They all from HA-2 Mk II and up can be used as a preamp.

Just add a good budget cd-player from the likes of NAD or Cambridge Audio or buy one used and you'll be all set.