Audio Interface As Headphone Amp

The dt770 80 ohm do like a decent amount of power to be driven to their best.

Audio interface as headphone amp. Without playing back any audio turn the headphone output volume to maximum. I am going to be recording audio soon and am trying to figure out which cables to buy for my setup. According to this video the motu m2 has the best headphone amp as a budget ai. An audio interface might decently drive the 80 ohm dt770 headphone.

Hello all i ve been researching for a while now and seem to be confused about a set up with my yamaha aventage 1060 receiver. There s also a third reason. I need to try to connect the headphone out on the amp if possible to the usb audio interface input so i can listen to the amp and transcribe on my pc through the audio interface at the same time. Recording and separate volume control for the monitors you might consider buying a used audio interface off ebay.

This will boost listening volume but is generally frowned upon by the hifi community. If the headphone output of your laptop or audio interface is noisy or audibly distorts at higher volumes then a headamp can help. I am listening to a guitar piece in transcribe trying to learn it. By spending your money on this one headphone output you should be able to get better audio quality than spreading it across four.

If unsure of what to purchase follow these general guidelines though you may find that our products can actually drive higher impedance headphones than the values listed below without issue. It sounds as though the latter is the case so you simply need to get hold of a single stereo headphone amp and connect it between the stereo outputs of your audio interface and the inputs of your yamaha mixing desk. So you talked about audio interface s in ability to drive headphones which seems to be an important aspect of evaluating an amp. I need to use headphones.

As a general rule higher impedance headphones require more power from the headphone output of your interface than lower impedance headphones. To test the noise floor of an audio device try connecting a pair of headphones to the headphone output of your audio interface. If you re unhappy with your audio interface s dac chip using a headphone amp with a digital input will enable you to bypass the interface s conversion. It seems that an audio interface would be a little more desirable for your use.

Just not sure how good it is compared to normal headphone amps. You should be able to hear hiss or noise. Just take care to check what s the source of the noise otherwise it can be smarter to get a better audio interface or a separate dac and amp unit for headphone monitoring. I have a ua apollo twin x audio interface an rnhp neve headphone.