Apartment life! HEADPHONE IDEAS?

[jimbob]

Finally Im starting to get the gear ive been wanting but now i live in an apartmnt and the amp has no headphone jacks. Any ideas or devices i can build to connect to the amp so i can listen to it through headphones w out waking the neighbors?

[smoguzbenjamin]

Try building a headphone amp with an LM-386.

Preferably LM386-N1 as that is only 325mW and won't blow your headphones to bits. But it might be too quiet :? I haven't tried yet, too busy with other stuff. Take a look at www.runoffgroove.com, the little gem amplifiers are what I based my headphone amp *schemmo* on.

[Ansil]

it won't be too quiet. it would actually take your ears offf if you max it out. unless you are already deaf.. lol

actually a dual opamp has been used on a couple of different schemes to drive a small pair of headphones

[MarkB]

if you're handy (which you likely are, since you're on a DIY site)...
try this:

http://mark.warcode.com/diy/dummychamber.htm
"-)

[Ansil]

if you're handy (which you likely are, since you're on a DIY site)...
try this:

http://mark.warcode.com/diy/dummychamber.htm
"-)

http://www.geocities.com/austenfantanio/deadbox.htm  

you can do mine too...  shameless plug..  lol

[smoguzbenjamin]

hmm that's odd. My philips headphones are rated at 0.5W. :? And the 386 had a hard time getting loud sounds. At least not as loud as I like :mrgreeen: which is definately too loud :mrgreen:

[David]

JimBob:

I went through this back in December.  There's a project from HeadWize using a LM386 (actually, it uses two if you follow the design).  B Tremblay of Runoffgroove modified this design to just work from one LM386.  Check my build report in Reviews, and do a search here for "headphone AND LM386".  That should pull the references you need.  This is what I'm going to use for testing effects.