Headphone Amps

Hey guys,

What is your choice for the best headphone amp that you have used with the Sennheiser HD650 headphones

Thanks
Dan

daniel82510-16-2012 7:24am

zavato Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,403 posts 10-17-2012 at 01:25am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Add this to your list to consider- Heed Canamp.
daniel825 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 36 posts 10-18-2012 at 01:12am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Thanks for all the input guys.... I have been reading the reviews on all the suggestions and they all come up good. I am going to be connecting the headphone out to a tube pre-amp. So the question is do I go with a tube or SS headphone amp? Thanks Dan
newbee Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,767 posts 10-18-2012 at 10:00pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The pre-amps output to the headphone amp will (I assume) come from the pre-amps tape out. If so the signal will bypass the tube amp stage in the pre-amp so there will be no tube redundancy. If you are taking the signal from one of the pre-amps main outputs you will not only have tube redundancy but you will have attenuator redundance which is not optimum by a considerable margin. If you could afford it you might consider a headphone system with a seperate CDP or a CDP with the signal being split and shared by the headphone amp and the pre-amp. The first is optimum. Tubes & 650's are a great match.