if you can't spend alot of money on good outboard and headphones, say fifteen hundred, then keep your inboard and a descent pair and live with it , you probably only use headphone twenty percent of the time, and buy music, if you can buy outboard...suggest grado box with there upgraded phones...dwhittt i love headphone listening but have never found it as enjoyable as with speakers and i have gone that way back and forth for years...either buy a real good outboard and phone or leave it alone and buy music d
Headphone amp: compare onboard/standalone
In a decent integrated (e.g., Creek, Rotel, NAD), how does the internal headphone amp compare with an outboard unit? How far up the headphone amp chain do would I have to go until I would hear a definite difference? Headphone amps with which I am familiar are the Creek OBH-11, Headroom Total Airhead, and a JMT Audio PIMETA w/ crossfeed. I need to downsize my rig and don't want to give up a good headphone experience, but need to keep costs down. Thanks very much for any input.