What I'd do is go on the forsale forum of Head-fi and pick myself up some used DT880s or 990s (most people do not recommend the 990s, because they use the cheaper 770 driver, etc. I personally do not like them much but to each his own, I personal run Grado SR-325is).
You can get a used headphone amp, or you can make your own headphone amp for not too much. You can make a headphone amp for 100 dollars or so that would blow the socks off the 300 dollar micoamp, IMO. I just made one with a regulated power supply for around 60 dollars. You can not run headphones off of the MicroDAC's output. I believe that it would result in ruining the MicroDAC with a much lower impedance load than it would like (which IIRC is in the 10k ohm range). -- bjackson _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
