[bdepaauw]

For my birthday/Christmas I am getting Sennheiser HD650's, super excited! It will be my first pair of audiophile headphones and I have a few questions on the rest of the setup.

1: I am thinking of getting the Objective2 as my amp but due to budget restrictions I can not get the DAC combo. Would this be a good choice for the price?

2: My source right now is an i-pod classic 180gb with FLAC files, I believe it is a Gen 7. I could stream Tidal from my iPhone 6+ as well. As I do not have a DAC, what would be the better source?

Thank you!

 

[PurpleAngel]

Guess you could just daisy chain the O2 off the Apple's products headphone output jack.

 

[DrKC]

The O2 amp should be fine with the 650s.  As Purple noted, your options for connecting are limited.  I know nothing about your iPod.  Is there a connection for digital out anywhere?  If not, you're stuck going through the iPod dac AND associated analog circuits.  Maybe this great - as I said I know nothing about that iPod.  Getting a digital stream out of the iPod to a decent dac with the O2 amp is probably going to give you the best sound with that setup.  But you can only do what the iPod will allow.

 

[bdepaauw]

Wouldn't I connect the iPod to the amp through the 30 pin connector?

 

[PurpleAngel]

Wouldn't I connect the iPod to the amp through the 30 pin connector?

 
If your iPod comes with the 30-pin LOD port, then connecting the LOD port to the input on an amplifier (O2) would be better then the iPod's headphone jack.

 

[bdepaauw]

I stumbled on a picture of how it would look, so this would be a digital setup?

 

[PurpleAngel]

I stumbled on a picture of how it would look, so this would be a digital setup?

 
You got it

 

[bdepaauw]

Awesome! Thank you for the help!