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<blockquote data-quote="d0dja" data-source="post: 304537" data-attributes="member: 2244"><p>I picked up an almost new set of B&W P5 headphones for a really good price. This is the first time I've owned good phones (some may argue with that desciption 8)). So two questions:</p><p></p><p>* dedicated headphone amplifier. How much impact does this have? I use my iPad nano when out and about, or the headphone jack on my Rotel integrated amp, or the headphone jack on my Fast Track sound card.</p><p> -- as an extension of this Q -- can you get good battery-powered headphone amps to augment an iPod?</p><p></p><p>* room spatialisers. Been doing some research on this, and the issue with most stereo recordings is that they are mixed for a speaker environment, so there is overlap between L and R channels by the time the sound reaches your ear (with some attenuation of higher freqs and slight time delay). Listening to stereo "pure" I find a bit fatiguing and "in your head". I've been playing with headphone plugins for Foobar. Any thoughts on these techs?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="d0dja, post: 304537, member: 2244"] I picked up an almost new set of B&W P5 headphones for a really good price. This is the first time I've owned good phones (some may argue with that desciption 8)). So two questions: * dedicated headphone amplifier. How much impact does this have? I use my iPad nano when out and about, or the headphone jack on my Rotel integrated amp, or the headphone jack on my Fast Track sound card. -- as an extension of this Q -- can you get good battery-powered headphone amps to augment an iPod? * room spatialisers. Been doing some research on this, and the issue with most stereo recordings is that they are mixed for a speaker environment, so there is overlap between L and R channels by the time the sound reaches your ear (with some attenuation of higher freqs and slight time delay). Listening to stereo "pure" I find a bit fatiguing and "in your head". I've been playing with headphone plugins for Foobar. Any thoughts on these techs? [/QUOTE]
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