Re: [LAU] question related output level and sound card

From: Joe Hartley <jh@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Mon Dec 16 2013 - 20:47:13 EET

On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:45:13 +0100
Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 13:42 -0500, Joe Hartley wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013 19:16:31 +0100
> > Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@email-addr-hidden-dsl.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Regarding to the pre amps, I was thinking of getting warmer sound, less
> > > about the level.
> >
> > I've recently built a few headphone amps that fit in Altoid tins.
> > It's barely about boosting the output level (though it will do that)
> > and more about making the source device's output work less hard and
> > possibly distort.
> >
> > The URL below goes to a page that compares many different op-amp chips
> > and discusses (among other things) the wau they affect the sound. I
> > ended up using the TI OPA2132P (a dual version of the Burr-Brown OPA132)
> > and I quite like the way it sounds.
>
> You forgot to post the URL :D.

I do that a lot.
http://tangentsoft.net/audio/opamps.html

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