Portable Amp for work

GiraffePencils · 21 Jul 2017 at 10:17

Hey,

I was wondering if anyone could suggest a portable amp I could use at work?
My work pc has terrible drive for onboard audio, it can barely get earphones up to a decent level, so I was wondering if there was a small portable amp people could suggest?

I'm not looking to spend very much, less than 50 ideally

EsaT · 21 Jul 2017 at 10:40

What headphones are you using?

Likely that PC has also sound quality wise bad integrated sound card.
So USB sound card/DAC might be better like Sound Blaster E1.
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/crea...portable-headphone-amp-and-dac-sc-101-cl.html
Actually there aren't even much of that priced portable headphone amplifiers.

dt97583 · 21 Jul 2017 at 10:40

Fiio E10?

GiraffePencils · 21 Jul 2017 at 10:46

I'm using some jays earphones atm.
They sound great through my laptop, but this pc just isn't getting anything out of them.

That sound blaster looks good, and yeah, this is a work-bog-standard pc.
All my works on servers etc, so I'm just terminaling in, so cheapest pc they could get haha.

EsaT · 21 Jul 2017 at 11:38

GiraffePencils said:
so cheapest pc they could get haha.

Likely taken from truck which would have taken them to recycling...