Grado Headphones

Yeah, I read about that in Stereophile.........nothing else for maybe half that price out there......??
At least that one is small for use with ipod but I didn't want to hang a lot of money on it either.
thanks.

The Headroom company specializes in headphone amps, including ones you can carry around with your iPod. The Total Airhead or Total Bithead models might be what you need. I gave one to one of my sons and it is really not bad.

http://www.headphone.com/

Headroom's portable amps

There are other small, battery-powered headphone amps available also. You may find a few names to look for if you visit head-fi.org.

If you do not need the ultimate in portability I would get a Grado RA-1 battery unit. I find this amp to be very organic sounding and works very well with low impedance phones. You will need a decent interconnect. Audioquest,

I like the Sennheiser PX 100 and Koss Porta Pros for portable use.

I have the same headphones and two headphone amps - cheap and really cheap - the new FiiO 5 is $20 bucks at Amazon - looks exactly like an ipod shuffle - charges from USB. And some other nice one that was $60 bucks - probably not made anymore. I bought cheap ones because I need portable - I used them to drown out the dentist drill for some long procedures.

The one piece of advice I keep harping on - PLEASE use the LINE OUT audio from the ipod jack, NOT the headphone mini output when connecting to any amp. The headephone audio out was not designed to be amplified impedence and gain is all wrong. The line out will give much better results - plus you leave the ipod on min volume conserving battery. If you use the headphone output you'll be in the same place - having to turn the amp output all the way up and also the ipod output up really high. (wasting ipo battery) Problem - its really hard to find a decent ipod output jack cable - I've made my own.