I need some help finding a headphone amp for a movie watching setup. My wife and I have different volume preference and use different headphones so I need to get 2 amps to allow us to have independent control. Since I'm getting 2 I'm a bit bound by price. I've got a L30 for my desktop setup and love it but two of them are $300 which is waay too much money for how frequently we watch movies.
Here's the must haves:
Here's the nice to haves:
Here's the don't wants:
Here's the must haves:
- single ended output ~> 500mW at <32ohms
- nice / easy to use volume knob
- single source input
Here's the nice to haves:
- rca input over 3.5mm
- single ended output ~>1W at <32ohms
- gain setting
- line out / pass through (opposed to a selectable or mutable pre-out)
Here's the don't wants:
- bright led's
- balanced I/O,
- dac
- battery
- bluetooth