hey all, brand new to the board, iv'e been doing a lot of work on an mp3 player system for my car, and i've recently discovered a fascination with this DIY stuff... so i decided to do some audio stuff.
anyway, ive been looking around for a project to get myself started, and i think im gonna do a headphone amp. yeah i know, every newbie starts with that!! but im not planning on using if to drive headphones, rather, for a custom installation of a playstation in the backseat of my car. i want to be able to mount some speakers for the playstation sound and have a volume control and a headphone bypass for the backseat psx console.
i found a couple projects on headwize that looked like possibilities, guitar amp Chu Moy amp and meier amp.
now the questions i have are this:
1. if i have a small set of 3 1/2 inch speakers, can i run them off of one of these headphone amps, with the input being the signal from the psx. im not looking for ear splitting volume just something to control the sound.
2. i want to be able to plug in headphones to the audio output and have it cut off the signal to the speakers and only be heard in the phones. i know it is super common, but i dont know what the audio jack is called.
3. i know the meier amp would be overkill for what im trying to do, but im thinking of getting some phones and making an amp for my minidisc player. on the meier amp it shows one signal, for the crossfeed network, if i use something like this on another design do i need to do that twice (one for each channel) or is that just installed on the one channel? im a little confused.
sorry about the newbie questions, but i have to start somewhere.
~mike
anyway, ive been looking around for a project to get myself started, and i think im gonna do a headphone amp. yeah i know, every newbie starts with that!! but im not planning on using if to drive headphones, rather, for a custom installation of a playstation in the backseat of my car. i want to be able to mount some speakers for the playstation sound and have a volume control and a headphone bypass for the backseat psx console.
i found a couple projects on headwize that looked like possibilities, guitar amp Chu Moy amp and meier amp.
now the questions i have are this:
1. if i have a small set of 3 1/2 inch speakers, can i run them off of one of these headphone amps, with the input being the signal from the psx. im not looking for ear splitting volume just something to control the sound.
2. i want to be able to plug in headphones to the audio output and have it cut off the signal to the speakers and only be heard in the phones. i know it is super common, but i dont know what the audio jack is called.
3. i know the meier amp would be overkill for what im trying to do, but im thinking of getting some phones and making an amp for my minidisc player. on the meier amp it shows one signal, for the crossfeed network, if i use something like this on another design do i need to do that twice (one for each channel) or is that just installed on the one channel? im a little confused.
sorry about the newbie questions, but i have to start somewhere.
~mike