Unfortunately, this came to the list. Just saying.
> On 26 May 2015, at 19:30, Chris Skarstad <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi
> Writing to you privately, yes your message came through just fine.
>
> On 5/26/2015 1:46 PM, Tom Kaufman wrote:
>> Hello list: I changed the subject line of this message as I'm not sure I
>> have the right address to this list! I received a message, telling me that
>> my membership has been disabled! I replied to the message as I was
>> instructed to do! So hopefully this reply will go through...and I'll
>> receive it as well! My apologies for being off-topic; am only trying to
>> make sure that all is working as it should here!
>> Tom Kaufman
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of André van
>> Deventer
>> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 12:27 PM
>> To: 'PC Audio Discussion List'
>> Subject: RE: improving headphone sound with a portable amp?
>>
>> I use a little headphone amplifier made by a company called Headroom. It
>> takes 4 AAA batteries.
>>
>> What I like about it is that it has a high and low impedence switch so it
>> caters for all kinds of headphones.
>>
>> You get a short cable with it which allows you to connect your mp3 device
>> or whatever to the 3.5 mm input of the amplifier. It also has a usb socket
>> so you can use it as a sound card also.
>>
>> I think it was called the Egghead or something like that.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mary
>> Otten
>> Sent: 21 May 2015 05:50 PM
>> To: PC Audio Discussion List
>> Subject: improving headphone sound with a portable amp?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Several years ago, I purchased a pair of AKG Q701 headphones for use with a
>> home stereo. These are, in my opinion, outstanding phones, especially
>> considering the price is around $200 or a bit more on Amazon.They are
>> wonderfully comfortable to wear for extended periods of time, more so than
>> any other phones I've seen, bar none. Recent reviews indicate some
>> dissatisfaction, since these are now apparently being made in China, rather
>> than Austria, the home country of AKG. But that's not the point of this
>> message.
>>
>> I have tried my Q701 with the headphone output of my iPhone and find the
>> output of the phone isn't sufficient to drive the Qs well. So I looked into
>> the possibility of a portable headphone amp, such as the fiio e12, which has
>> pretty decent reviews on Amazon. It is not clear to me, however, how you get
>> the signal from the lightning port on the phone to the little amp, as it
>> doesn't seem to come with a cable. You can purchase a separate LOD from
>> fiio, but it has the old style 30-pin connector. You could then purchase an
>> official Apple lightning adapter at some ridiculously inflated price, of
>> course, and then I suppose the set up would work, although I don't think
>> this amp has a DAC, and I'm not sure if you'd need one of those anyway. So,
>> the question. What are folks doing who have head phones which are not driven
>> adequately by the crummy output stages found in portable devices like phones
>> etc?
>>
>> Mary
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