Budget Headphone System & a question

JRKO · 9th December 2010, 01:25 PM

Just received a pair of HD650's which are simply breathtaking. I'm not even using an amp - just my iMac headphone out. SOOOO MUUUUUCCCHHHH DEEEETAAAAIIIILLLLLLLL

Have a Playstation 1 on the way (the one with RCA outputs) that has a huge modding thread Playstation as CD-player

Probably this DAC High Grade 24bit/192khz DAC with fully assembled kits - eBay (item 120551270004 end time Dec-27-10 01:48:28 PST) as again its got a good following New Small DIY Gigawork Dac? . It will look after my Imac's 1.5Tb of lossless music

A Sony PS-4300 direct drive, quartz locked TT that will be getting a home brew carbon fibre arm like Nanook's but carbon tubing my latest iteration of "Nanook's 219 tonearm"..

All in a smidge over £340! that made my wife very happy

Here is the question though - does anyone know if I can use the Trends Audio T10.1 amp that I have to drive the HD650's?

BoilermakerFan · 16th December 2010, 04:11 PM

Yes, you can. I'll have to find the bookmark, but you just need to make a simple resistor network to provide the amp the correct load and protect the headphones from being over powered. A simple, clean way to do it is to use protoboard and a small project box to hold a panel mount 1/4" TRS jack and speaker binding posts, or just come straight out of the box with a short run of Mogami or Canare Star Quad as the wire to the amp.

9th December 2010, 01:25 PM	#1
JRKO diyAudio Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: U.K.	Budget Headphone System & a question Just received a pair of HD650's which are simply breathtaking. I'm not even using an amp - just my iMac headphone out. SOOOO MUUUUUCCCHHHH DEEEETAAAAIIIILLLLLLLL Have a Playstation 1 on the way (the one with RCA outputs) that has a huge modding thread Playstation as CD-player Probably this DAC High Grade 24bit/192khz DAC with fully assembled kits - eBay (item 120551270004 end time Dec-27-10 01:48:28 PST) as again its got a good following New Small DIY Gigawork Dac? . It will look after my Imac's 1.5Tb of lossless music A Sony PS-4300 direct drive, quartz locked TT that will be getting a home brew carbon fibre arm like Nanook's but carbon tubing my latest iteration of "Nanook's 219 tonearm".. All in a smidge over £340! that made my wife very happy Here is the question though - does anyone know if I can use the Trends Audio T10.1 amp that I have to drive the HD650's? __________________ In the interests of full disclosure JRKO = James Rupert Kingsley Osborne. And yes, my parents will pay for it when I choose their retirement home

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16th December 2010, 04:11 PM	#2
BoilermakerFan diyAudio Member Join Date: Jan 2008	Yes, you can. I'll have to find the bookmark, but you just need to make a simple resistor network to provide the amp the correct load and protect the headphones from being over powered. A simple, clean way to do it is to use protoboard and a small project box to hold a panel mount 1/4" TRS jack and speaker binding posts, or just come straight out of the box with a short run of Mogami or Canare Star Quad as the wire to the amp.