I find that I use my headphones with one of my squeezeboxes quite a bit. Yes, the headphone out leaves a bit to be desired. I have a set of $100 Sony around-the-ear headphones - nothing really special, but I like the way they sound and feel on my head.
So, I broke down and ordered a headphone amp from Practical Devices. Hopefully my XM4 will arrive early this week. It's a little more expensive than the Total Airhead suggested by another poster, but it includes an option for having a lithium battery, includes a charging circuit for nicad or nmh recharchables. Bass boost and variable crossfeed are other features. And if you are so inclined, you can switch out op-amps since it is socketed. The analog line-outs of the Squeezebox sound good to me, so I'm sure they will sound great with the XM4 headphone amp. Yes, it would be nice to have a headphone amp with a digital input, but that brings you into an enitre new class of headphone amp - I'm not prepared to make that kind of an investment :-). -- maggior ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38317 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
