IVIYTH0S Posted October 31, 2014 Posted October 31, 2014 Our first house! AYOOOO, Congratulations! What benefit is the headphone amp? Providing more juice to harder drive earphone/headphones. Ex. Plugging in a mid-high range headphone into a phone or mp3 players and having to jack up the volume to get anything decent. Puts less stress on the source device and saves battery life too. Bought it use whenever I want to use my main headphones away from my computer. Also like the look of it too. Well the short answer is some headphones, especially older headphones and high end headphones are very power hungry by design. A low powered mobile device often do not have the power to run nice headphones to there full potential. Some amps like the one AZNguyen bought have a Bass Boost or other EQ features. They can also extend the battery life of your mobile device because your device wont be working as hard to produce a high voltage output signal (you can set your players volume very low and just turn up the amp). Long answer, I am not an expert but I know enough to be dangerous. An under powered headphone will sound anemic and will lack bass and volume to the point where a cheap easy to drive headphone will sound much better on the same low powered device, like a cell phone or mp3 player. Apple products especially the Ipod Classics actually have very powerful amplifiers in them compared to many other devices but still will have trouble running headphones over 300ohm impedance or other power hungry headphones. Generally, headphones for mobile usage range from 16-70ohms of impedance. True studio headphones are meant to be plugged into powerful mixers and amplifiers and NEED to be very high impedance to not kerplode when you try to use them. These headphones usually carry an impedance of 500-1500 and require beefy amplifiers to work properly. They are the product of the amplifier, not the other way around. They are also necessary if you are running an DAC (Digital to Analog Converter) for the added sound quality. Many of them do not have an amplifier built in and need amplification to turn a signal into usable power. All but one of the headphones I own or have owned did not require an amplifier to sound good. Almost all headphones you will see for sale at a store are designed to run well off of low powered amplifiers. Edit:Sorry if I hijacked the question AZNguyen. Yeah but are you really "saving power" if you have to charge the amplifier too or if you're the poor soul to run the non-rechargeable model... you have to remember to change your archaic 9V batteries It just seems silly to me, even my old Creative SL3100s which sounded like heaven, never needed any of that rubbish to sound good... I'd love to have a demonstration though just to have it proven to me that such a thing would be worth it. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 31, 2014 Posted October 31, 2014 (edited) Yeah bought a 9v charger can carry two in the case. So I'll probably last a day each if I listen 6-8 hours at work. You can also plug an AC adapter to it. Edited October 31, 2014 by AZNguyen Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted October 31, 2014 Posted October 31, 2014 Yeah bought a 9v charger can carry two in the case. So I'll probably last a day each if I listen 6-8 hours at work. You can also plug an AC adapter to it. So you got the single or dual replaceable 9V version? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhenKittensATK Posted October 31, 2014 Posted October 31, 2014 It's single but enough free space to carry two Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted November 1, 2014 Posted November 1, 2014 (edited) It's single but enough free space to carry two What rechargeable 9V did you get? I may look into buying one for my infrared thermometer Edited November 1, 2014 by IVIYTH0S Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabrielT Posted November 1, 2014 Posted November 1, 2014 Yeah but are you really "saving power" if you have to charge the amplifier too or if you're the poor soul to run the non-rechargeable model... you have to remember to change your archaic 9V batteries It just seems silly to me, even my old Creative SL3100s which sounded like heaven, never needed any of that rubbish to sound good... I'd love to have a demonstration though just to have it proven to me that such a thing would be worth it. Extending battery life of the player is more accurate but I see your point. The SL3100 according to the internet were wireless so I don't see how that applies here... It is a bit silly but some headphones, not all really do need more power to sound good and have enough volume. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
d6bmg Posted November 1, 2014 Posted November 1, 2014 Bought my 3rd Porta Pro as the last one dies few weeks ago. And JBL charge 2 as portable speaker for mobile as well as laptop. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IVIYTH0S Posted November 2, 2014 Posted November 2, 2014 (edited) Yeah but are you really "saving power" if you have to charge the amplifier too or if you're the poor soul to run the non-rechargeable model... you have to remember to change your archaic 9V batteries It just seems silly to me, even my old Creative SL3100s which sounded like heaven, never needed any of that rubbish to sound good... I'd love to have a demonstration though just to have it proven to me that such a thing would be worth it. Extending battery life of the player is more accurate but I see your point. The SL3100 according to the internet were wireless so I don't see how that applies here... It is a bit silly but some headphones, not all really do need more power to sound good and have enough volume. His headphones are wireless...and bluetooth at that. My creatives were "bluetooth" but had a proprietary dongle that plugged into the 3.5mm out Edited November 2, 2014 by IVIYTH0S Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GabrielT Posted November 2, 2014 Posted November 2, 2014 (edited) His headphones are wireless...and bluetooth at that. My creatives were "bluetooth" but had a proprietary dongle that plugged into the 3.5mm out I didn't catch that, I assume/hope he is going to use them with a different set of headphones. The amp will do literally nothing when paired with bluetooth headphones. LOL YOU SAID "DONGLE"! Dongle is my favorite word, makes me laugh every time I hear or read it. You could technically use that dongle (hehehe) to amp to the headphones but it would be pointless. The headphones and amp were designed to be used with each other and require no additional power to work well, the need only arises when you have a amp that is made for a much less power hungry headphones. Edited November 2, 2014 by GabrielTessin Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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