What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
I'm signed up for the Drop, but the whole DAC/Amp thing has boggled me.
I'm planning on using these with no DAC, no (mini-) Amp, but instead plugged directly into the headphone jack of a Marantz 2325 receiver-- it was Marantz's flagship in 1974 and was my father's. After he gifted it to me, I had a complete ground-up restoration done, and it's *perfect*-- 125 (true) watts per channel at 8 ohms.
Good plan? Bad plan? Right choice of headphones? Poor choice of headphones?
Thanks!
edit: I just googled "vintage receiver output impedance headphone" and I got this interesting thread from head-fi that corroborates what I've just wrote:
https://www.head-fi.org/f/threads/does-a-vintage-receiver-cut-it-as-a-headphone-amplifier.589415/
I spent a good while today looking through the old Marantz materials I could find, both on my laptop and on the 'net, and the *only* thing I found re: the headphone jack was as follows:
"Headphones Output......................................................0.7V into 8 ohms at rated distortion"
Honestly? I don't even know what that means. However, a lot of the "vintage" threads seem to think that the amp is a jewel with pretty much any headphone, including the HD6xx series.
I had the amp completely rebuilt from the ground up in a "cost is no object" restoration, so I suppose I'll just have to operate on faith and give these headphones a chance, since I wasn't able to find any particular information on the Marantz 2325's headphone jack specifications.
Sigh. NOTHING is ever easy!