HD650 is top line quality. If your headphone amp is not great quality then get something with low impedance. My Sennheiser HD-25-1-11 Pro's work great with crap amps - extremely dynamic and great for PC's or airplane trips as you get around 17 db external noise reduction (cupped headphone design). Horses for courses...these don't sound as good as open headphones and a special dedicated headphone amp though.
Two-part headphone question
For the first time in decades, I have an amplifier with a headphone jack. (It's a Creek Audio Destiny Integrated Amplifier.) Two questions:
1) I'd like to give 'phones a try, but I don't want to spend a ton in case I don't end up enjoying the experience. Can folks recommend a decent and relatively inexpensive pair of headphones that a boy might try to check out this whole (forgotten) world of listening with the speakers attached to your head?
2) As the most comfortable seat in the joint is a fair distance from the amp, I'm wondering if one can run a kind of headphone cord extender (quarter-inch female to quarter-inch male) without causeing any problems?
Thanks for any direction you might be able to give me on this one.
Howard
1) I'd like to give 'phones a try, but I don't want to spend a ton in case I don't end up enjoying the experience. Can folks recommend a decent and relatively inexpensive pair of headphones that a boy might try to check out this whole (forgotten) world of listening with the speakers attached to your head?
2) As the most comfortable seat in the joint is a fair distance from the amp, I'm wondering if one can run a kind of headphone cord extender (quarter-inch female to quarter-inch male) without causeing any problems?
Thanks for any direction you might be able to give me on this one.
Howard