On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:45:13 +0100 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 13:42 -0500, Joe Hartley wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:16:31 +0100 > > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Regarding to the pre amps, I was thinking of getting warmer sound, less > > > about the level. > > > > I've recently built a few headphone amps that fit in Altoid tins. > > It's barely about boosting the output level (though it will do that) > > and more about making the source device's output work less hard and > > possibly distort. > > > > The URL below goes to a page that compares many different op-amp chips > > and discusses (among other things) the wau they affect the sound. I > > ended up using the TI OPA2132P (a dual version of the Burr-Brown OPA132) > > and I quite like the way it sounds. > > You forgot to post the URL :D. I do that a lot. http://tangentsoft.net/audio/opamps.html -- ====================================================================== Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
