whats a headphone amp for?

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I have a pair of sen hd555's, playing music with my pc, thru a cheap creative inspire t606 5.1 system, i can max out my headphones, have massive loads of bass ect. Just wondering, what exactly are head amps for? just to play music louder? or is their more to it than that
 
lowrider007 said:
/\ truth

If you continue using the hd555's with the 5.1's internal amplifier then you don't deserve those headphones tbh, I just brought a pair of HD650's and I feel guilty even using then on a Gemini mixing desk, I feel they deserve better.

dont deserve them lol, nutter

they still sound the ****** to me, then again iv never experienced better sound so i wouldnt know really, which is why i posted this thread

if i bought a headphone amp, and connected that thru my creative system like the way i do with my hradphones now, would i still experience a better sound quality?
 
lowrider007 said:
nutter lol, suppose I am a bit :D , but it is a bit silly running those headphones off the internal amp, I don't mean any offence, it's like me buying a pair of 1 grand book self speakers and pairing them with a matsui all-in-one hi-fi then I really would be a nutter ;) , look on the bay for a secound hand x-can headphone amplifer, that should start you off.



If I understand what your saying correctly then no it will not, you do not want to plug the headphone amp into the creative speaker system's audio jack where you curruntly plug your head phones into, what you want to do is plug it directly into the front left and right audio jack from the back of your sound card, basicly the best thing to do is get an 3.5mm jack splitter, google ''Hama Cable Adapter 3.5mm Jack to 2 x 3.5mm Sockets" (miss out the " ), plug that into the front L&R audio jack on the back of your soundcard, basicly that converts it into two, use one of the female jacks to plug your creative front left and right speaker jack into that you previously had plugged into the back of your sound card, the other female jack you can use for your head phone amp, the cable you need for the will be a , just google "3.5mm jack to left & right rca" (again, without the ") plug that cable into the spare female jack and the 2 left and right rca's will plug into the headphone amp, that way you can have your speakers working fine and your headphones through the amp without no messing around.

thanx m8!! good idea, dunno why i didnt think of that myself, i shall purchase myself an amp and see for my self, thanx again for your help and amp suggestions. now for a decision which to get
 
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