Favorite Composite Power IC for Headphone Drive?

I used the LT1010 on a recent project, simply because I had them on hand for ever.
I'm very pleased with the sound quality driving a pair of ATH-40x, which at 32 Ohms, are the lowest Z phones I have.
Doesn't meet your 250mA current drive requirement but rail voltage is close at +/- 22V.
 

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Nope, sorry. LH0033 headphone amp is still a prototype that needs work. When you flip the gain switch, there's an audible tick I'd like to get rid of. And other things need improving too.

Yes the name of the HPA is also the color of the heatsink. How did that happen?

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ADA4870. Not the fastest kid on the block but it punches substantially, high voltage and high current ;-)

But 1...3 paralleled LME49600's are probably easiest to use.

OPA1612 in non-inverting config, like almost all opamps, is super-low distortion only with low and equal source impedances or, as best possible solution, with bootstrapped or steered rails. Then input CM voltage (and output voltage when the buffer is unity gain) is effectively constant, it doesn't get any better than this wrt operating conditions.
 
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