Ever wondered what are those different ports behind your TV or DAC/Amps mean? Content What is an Audio Output? Categories of Audio Output Types of Analog Audio Output Types of…
Building the Starving Student II Hybrid Headphone Amplifier
The popular DIY budget amp has graduated and fully realized its potential. The first Starving Student hybrid headphone amplifier originally debuted in 2008 on Pete Millett’s DIY Audio Pages. Pete…
10 Jaw-Dropping Vacuum Tube Headphone Amplifiers
Vacuum tubes are as much about the sonics as they are about the aesthetics; celebrate great visual design in tube amplification with this list of our favorites! With the relatively…
Understanding Sample Rate, Bit Depth, and Bit Rate
And how it affects your audio quality. In the audiophile industry, there is an endless list of topics that spark debate. Contentious topics like expensive cables and high-resolution (hi-res) audio…
How to Mod the Fostex T50RP MK3
Today we are taking a look at the famous Fostex RP series of headphones where many headphone enthusiasts and audiophiles were introduced to the fun world of modding. We will…
An Amplifier Primer: Technical Terms for Beginners
Want to better understand the tech-speak you find in marketing materials and equipment reviews? Here’s your crash-course in amplifier terminology and how it should impact your purchasing decisions. Have you…
Building the Millett NuHybrid Headphone Amplifier
How a Fluorescent Display became a Triode Vacuum Tube for Audio The NuHybrid is (as you may have guessed from the name) a new type of hybrid tube headphone amplifier.…
[Foolproof] How to Connect Your Wireless Headphones to Any TV
Use this foolproof guide to use your wireless Bluetooth headphones with your TV. I don’t care what anyone says. Binge-watching Netflix on the TV feels 10 times more awesome than…
Balanced vs Unbalanced Audio Connections
Getting the best sound from your headphone setup can be a balancing act, but does it have to be? A typical headphone source (amplifier, DAP, etc.) supports an unbalanced headphone…
Headphone Jack and Plugs: Everything You Need to Know
You will never look at the headphone jack and plug the same way again. Headphone jack is dead! Apple has killed the headphone jack. Sounds familiar? Ever since Apple removed…
Headphone Impedance Demystified: Do I Need a Headphone Amp?
The importance of matching headphones with audio sources in the pursuit of high fidelity audio. Impedance is one of the basic specifications included with almost every quality pair of headphones…
Demevalos’ Guide to Creating Y-Split Braided Cables
This will be a guide for creating a y-split braided cable for the HD 650/660S/600/all other variants that use this connector. It can be, however, be used to create any…
Demevalos’ Guide to Building Audio Cables
This is going to serve as a general purpose guide on how to build your own audio cables, and more specifically here for headphones. In this tutorial, I will be…
Upgrading the Bottlehead Crack Headphone Amplifier: A Comprehensive Guide
oSo now you have assembled your stock Bottlehead Crack OTL amplifier. You could stop now and live in personal audio bliss. The Crack sounds so good, there really isn’t a…
Building the Bottlehead Crack Headphone Amplifier: A Comprehensive Guide
Originally announced in 2010, the Crack is an affordable tube-based headphone amplifier kit offered by the Bottlehead Corporation located in Poulsbo, Washington State, USA. The company was created by the…
