PS. I forgot I also experienced Aiwa consumer gear headphone amps as good. So, in my experiences _for home recording_ hifi gear headphone amps from Pioneer, Sony and Aiwa always were ok. At least of my Pioneer amp, Sony and Aiwa DAT recorders. I'm not sure about my Pioneer CD player and AIWA tape recorder, but IIRC they were ok, too. None of this hifi gear was expensive, it was cheap hifi gear. The sound quality of this hifi gear is similar good as the headphone output of my RME HDSPe AIO. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user