Using a headphone splitter from a single amp?

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Hey everyone! I'm putting together a home songwriting studio and for various reasons I need it to be headphone-oriented but to be able to have a couple people in the room with me. I already have a few different headphones, all of which are decent (none of them are SUPER hi fi, but eg a set of DT 990 pros and ATH-M50s). My current solution is to use the headphone output from my UAD Apollo Twin X, and when there are others in the room with me (don't make fun of me I know this is terrible) I found out that somehow the line outs from the back of the interface at least make the music audible and not sound ridiculously bad. I don't really have the budget to get multiple quality headphone amps at the moment so I was planning to get an amp like a geshelli archel 2.5xl or toping a50 and feed it into a https://www.redco.com/Redco-Little-Red-Cue-Box.html as a splitter. Are there any issues I should be aware of with this plan?

 

[Multicore]

Have you tried something like this?

Amazon.com

If it works to your satisfaction then ...

 

[solderdude]

Why not simply buy a:

Behringer HA400​

or

Presonus HP4​

or

ART HeadAMP 4​

or

LD Systems HPA 4​

or

Mackie HM-4​

or

Millenium HA 4​

or

Swissonic Quadphone​

or

Behringer Amp800 V2​

or

Rolls RA-53b​

or

Rockboard HA 4 4-Channel Headphone​

to name but a few designed for this job headphone amps.

 

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Because I

Why not simply buy a:

Behringer HA400​

or

Presonus HP4​

or

ART HeadAMP 4​

or

LD Systems HPA 4​

or

Mackie HM-4​

or

Millenium HA 4​

or

Swissonic Quadphone​

or

Behringer Amp800 V2​

or

Rolls RA-53b​

or

Rockboard HA 4 4-Channel Headphone​

to name but a few designed for this job headphone amps.

well to follow your question another question buried in my message -- I noticed a big difference when I bought my UAD up from just the laptop headphone out and I'm wondering since this is my main monitoring for mixing as well if (1) I should invest in a higher end headphone amp (especially since they're the price of a bargain studio monitor) and (2) if these amps won't be a downgrade from the one in the UAD

 

[Multicore]

Given the price of the Behringer HA400 I retract my previous suggestion. (Good golly, how do they do it?)

Because I

well to follow your question another question buried in my message -- I noticed a big difference when I bought my UAD up from just the laptop headphone out and I'm wondering since this is my main monitoring for mixing as well if (1) I should invest in a higher end headphone amp (especially since they're the price of a bargain studio monitor) and (2) if these amps won't be a downgrade from the one in the UAD

I don't think driving multiple headphones from one hifi HP amp with passive splitting and an attenuation control for each output is a better choice than a budget studio HP amp with that drives each output.

 

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Ok thank you all for bringing me down to earth here. I got a used AKG HP4E mostly because it has 1/4 and 1/8 inputs which are on the front for easy access.

 

[solderdude]

There is not much wrong with the AKG HP4E.

 

[staticV3]

I don't really have the budget to get multiple quality headphone amps at the moment so I was planning to get an amp like a geshelli archel 2.5xl or toping a50 and feed it into a https://www.redco.com/Redco-Little-Red-Cue-Box.html as a splitter. Are there any issues I should be aware of with this plan?

Buy this instead:

Fosi PH-05 Headphone Distribution Amplifier

This is a review and measurements of the Fosi Audio PH-05 five (5) channel analog headphone distribution amplifier. It was kindly sent to me by a member and costs US $49. The package is extraordinarily nice given the price. Controls feel nice and having five outputs at once each with their own...

www.audiosciencereview.com

 

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HP4E is working great. I think it sounds a *little* bit distorted and slightly flatter soundstage compared to the amp in the Apollo but it's splitting hairs. And for that, the Apollo has a weird behavior where the monitor controls (dim, mute, mono) work for the monitor outs only, not the headphone out, so sending the monitor outs through the HP4E and plugging my headphones in there mean I get a more fully featured monitor controller