I never owned a separate headphone amp until recently.
I just relied on whatever headphone input a piece of gear had built in.
Then when I no longer had any gear with built in headphone inputs I purchased a Burson headphone amp, and discovered how poor the bulit in units mostly are.
My phones are the entry level Grado SR 60,which sound so much better thru the Burson, that I am considering moving up to the top of the line Grados.
Headphone listening can be quite educational.
You can remove all the influence the room brings to your sound, and really hear what's on a recording.
I used headphones to discerne the differences in power cables.
The differences I heard from entry level Shunyata to Annaconda was quite easy to hear thru the phones.
A good set of phones and a good headphone amp can be quite a smart investment,and provide a real high end musical expereince for way less dollars than a conventional amp, speaker pre amp set up.
And did I mention, there's no room interference?
I just relied on whatever headphone input a piece of gear had built in.
Then when I no longer had any gear with built in headphone inputs I purchased a Burson headphone amp, and discovered how poor the bulit in units mostly are.
My phones are the entry level Grado SR 60,which sound so much better thru the Burson, that I am considering moving up to the top of the line Grados.
Headphone listening can be quite educational.
You can remove all the influence the room brings to your sound, and really hear what's on a recording.
I used headphones to discerne the differences in power cables.
The differences I heard from entry level Shunyata to Annaconda was quite easy to hear thru the phones.
A good set of phones and a good headphone amp can be quite a smart investment,and provide a real high end musical expereince for way less dollars than a conventional amp, speaker pre amp set up.
And did I mention, there's no room interference?