What would my options be for a small headphone-based system? Anyway of hooking up headphones without having to buy a separate headphone (pre)amp? Like something built into the Clari-T directly (kind of like how you can build in the Monica DAC)?
I have an external NEX 6Xe CDROM transport and a Channel Islands DAC that have been sitting around and I've lately been thinking about putting together a headphone system for my office.
Hi dogberry,
I have a couple of customers who are using the Clari-T with the AKG-K1000 headphones and are very happy with the combo. Headphones like the K1000s have a separate L+, L-, R+, and R- connections, which makes it work with the Clari-T. Another headphone company that I've seen do this is Stax.
With the Class-T design, the negative output speaker terminals cannot be connected together (which they are when using a typcial headphone plug...the grounds of each headphone speaker are tied together).
The other option is modding a pair of headphones to obtain separate L+, L-, R+, and R- connections, but you might not want to do this. I suppose that if you don't mind doing this, an adapter plug can be made to convert back to the typical headphone plug when you are not using the Clari-T.
BTW, I asked Srajan of 6moons to try the customized Clari-T that I sent him with is AKG-K1000s, so hopefully he will report his findigs.
I also recommend a 4 to 8 ohm resistor be used across the L and R outputs when using the headphones in order to properly load the TA2024 chip in the Clari-T to get a good freq. response. I can include these at no extra cost...
Let me know if you have any other questions about this.
Sincerely,
