I am looking for something to attach to my headphones that will either lower the volume and increase the volume and I want it to do it without losing quality, but I don't know what I am looking for exactly and I don't want to spend a lot of money on it. I am using a pair of Sennheiser HD 212 pro headphones and would like something that would work well with them.
I am using a variety of adapters to plug into my consoles so I can use headphones with them and My Sega Cd is a little loud and other consoles are a little low in volume hehe.
Headphone Volume Control
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Headphone Volume Control
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Re: Headphone Volume Control
A headphone amplifier would do it. Though pretty much anything you add to the chain would change the quality of the sound you're hearing, whether it be better or worse depends on which amp you get, and whether it will be a noticeable difference as well.
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Re: Headphone Volume Control
Well I found these on ebay.. Are they junk should I go for something more expensive??
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Re: Headphone Volume Control
locating a cheap headphone amp is sometimes a pain in the ass though.
but what I've always done, seeing as old portable sound equipment can be found easily for dirt cheap, take some old device and rip the freakin' thing out of it. An old tape cassette player, portable CD player, broken gameboy, etc etc.
Play with em, get an idea of how it works... then you can look into getting a quality one. Seeing as these will cost anywhere from 0 to maybe a couple bucks (depending what you got laying around the house, if you have to buy go to good will or something).
Really all you need from the get up is the amplifier itself, it'll be tiny and relatively close to the headphone jack. It's usually just a little black box with a spinny wheel on it (the spinny wheel being the volume control). Don't forget to yank the damn headphone jack out as well.
Then just wire in the stereo connection (again easy, rip some damn female RCA jacks out of some crap you have laying around), solder the RCAs to the amp's input, then leave the connection to the mini jack. Lastly hook up some type of power supply (amps need power), a batter should do. Depends the voltage of the amp you got what battery combo to use. Should say on it, or you could google its part model number. They range from 1v to 9v depending. Batteries are ran in 'series' (one after the other) to increase voltage. So 6 batteries is 9v. Really though it's not going to make a huge difference as it's DC, one or two batteries ain't going to kill it. Of course test with shit headphones first... don't want to burst yo' quality shit.
done. for free. win.
oh if the audio is coming out scratchy, probably because the source audio is already amplified a little. Stick some resistors in between the RCA input and the amp...
but what I've always done, seeing as old portable sound equipment can be found easily for dirt cheap, take some old device and rip the freakin' thing out of it. An old tape cassette player, portable CD player, broken gameboy, etc etc.
Play with em, get an idea of how it works... then you can look into getting a quality one. Seeing as these will cost anywhere from 0 to maybe a couple bucks (depending what you got laying around the house, if you have to buy go to good will or something).
Really all you need from the get up is the amplifier itself, it'll be tiny and relatively close to the headphone jack. It's usually just a little black box with a spinny wheel on it (the spinny wheel being the volume control). Don't forget to yank the damn headphone jack out as well.
Then just wire in the stereo connection (again easy, rip some damn female RCA jacks out of some crap you have laying around), solder the RCAs to the amp's input, then leave the connection to the mini jack. Lastly hook up some type of power supply (amps need power), a batter should do. Depends the voltage of the amp you got what battery combo to use. Should say on it, or you could google its part model number. They range from 1v to 9v depending. Batteries are ran in 'series' (one after the other) to increase voltage. So 6 batteries is 9v. Really though it's not going to make a huge difference as it's DC, one or two batteries ain't going to kill it. Of course test with shit headphones first... don't want to burst yo' quality shit.
done. for free. win.
oh if the audio is coming out scratchy, probably because the source audio is already amplified a little. Stick some resistors in between the RCA input and the amp...