zpro
New Head-Fier
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Hello,
So tomorrow I will be picking up my first pair of quality headphones, sennheiser hd650's. They have been used lightly (essentially new) and the owner upgraded to hd800's so is selling his hd650's.
I understand these headphones are 300ohm and need proper amplification to unleash their full potential (...right?).
I would love to use these headphones with my ipod (ipod video, 5th gen, 30gb) on the go (battery) and have been looking at a few of the amp or amp/dac combos I see mentioned frequently (E17 being one) and to be honest I am overwhelmed. It seems every person recommends something completely different (not that this is bad! just difficult to process...).
Also I understand using an amp like this, one should not be using the headphone out of the ipod to feed the portable amp but preferably the actual docking slot of the ipod. Where do I find such a connector? Which one would be suitable for my setup.
Also I have a focusrite saffire pro 40 at home that is fed data through firewire from my desktop pc. Would this be suitable for home listening with the hd650's? I also use an onkyo receiver fed by the saffire pro 40 (do not have have the exact model number) to power my paradigm titans and paradigm 7semk3's which has a 1/4" headphone output... Not sure whether I should plug the headphones into the soundcard, the receiver or neither...
I only listen to lossless (FLAC, WAVE, ALAC) content period. My ipod is running rockbox os and I will probably never use the apple os again. Will I need to change my Ipod (5th gen 30gb video) to use it with an external amp/dac such as the e17 through the dock port?
Much love and many thanks to any input.
Sorry if my English is lacking in coherence.
So tomorrow I will be picking up my first pair of quality headphones, sennheiser hd650's. They have been used lightly (essentially new) and the owner upgraded to hd800's so is selling his hd650's.
I understand these headphones are 300ohm and need proper amplification to unleash their full potential (...right?).
I would love to use these headphones with my ipod (ipod video, 5th gen, 30gb) on the go (battery) and have been looking at a few of the amp or amp/dac combos I see mentioned frequently (E17 being one) and to be honest I am overwhelmed. It seems every person recommends something completely different (not that this is bad! just difficult to process...).
Also I understand using an amp like this, one should not be using the headphone out of the ipod to feed the portable amp but preferably the actual docking slot of the ipod. Where do I find such a connector? Which one would be suitable for my setup.
Also I have a focusrite saffire pro 40 at home that is fed data through firewire from my desktop pc. Would this be suitable for home listening with the hd650's? I also use an onkyo receiver fed by the saffire pro 40 (do not have have the exact model number) to power my paradigm titans and paradigm 7semk3's which has a 1/4" headphone output... Not sure whether I should plug the headphones into the soundcard, the receiver or neither...
I only listen to lossless (FLAC, WAVE, ALAC) content period. My ipod is running rockbox os and I will probably never use the apple os again. Will I need to change my Ipod (5th gen 30gb video) to use it with an external amp/dac such as the e17 through the dock port?
Much love and many thanks to any input.
Sorry if my English is lacking in coherence.