headphones - quality loss when splitting?

[SooTyLaD]

ok, my missus bought me an amazing electronic drum kit for my b'day - and i just got hold of some Roland RH-200 headphones which in my opinion are the mutz nutz (but i spose they should be for the $$$)

anyway, i wan't to be able to plug my other set of headphones in also, but when i run it through the splitter setup, the quality is drastically reduced...

standard setup #1: RH-200 (3.5mm stereo /w 6.35mm supplied adapter) -> V-Drums - sound quality superb!

splitter setup #2: RH-200 (3.5mm) + Other Headphones (3.5mm) -> 2-1 splitter (3.5mm all round) -> aftermarket 3.5mm-6.35mm adapter -> V-Drums - sound quality pap!

the splitter is just a radioshack one and the aftermarket 3.5mm-6.35mm adapter was just one i found in a box somewhere, so the quality of these two components may not be up to much...

my question is, if i get a good quality (gold plated and all that jazz) twin 3.5mm - 6.35mm splitter, will the sound quality be what its supposed to be, or do you always loose quality by splitting?

EDIT: basically, will a good quality version of this (if i can find one) do the trick?

 

[fish99]

I'm no expert but I would think you always lose quality with a splitter. Surely it's gonna split the signal strength in half, not to mention the possible cheap connections the signal is going through. There are headphone amps that can power 2 set of phones though, but they're not cheap and they may not be suitable if the sound from your drum thingy is already amped. Maybe it has phono outputs for connecting to an amp?

Might be worth posting on the AV forums (http://www.avforums.com) headphone board btw.