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Title: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: Jonas on October 25, 2011, 01:33:09 PM
I mentioned this in one of the million Sessions threads but I figured it deserves its own thread.

I am looking for an efficient portable cd player and possibly a spectacular headphone amp. I already have a good set of headphones, but the only thing that I have to listen to CD's is my laptop, and the headphone jack on that is messed up...

Any suggestions? I'm assuming anything that plays a CD will do good, and then put in a pretty penny for the headphone amp...

Thanks


Title: Re: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: stack-o-tracks on October 25, 2011, 01:50:05 PM
Several years ago my stepdad bought a headphone amp from eBay that some guy had made himself in an Altoids tin. You could probably find something similar there now. I'd search for you but its a hassle doing anything on my phone.


Title: Re: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: Jonas on October 25, 2011, 05:22:50 PM
I'm thinking about picking up a Onkyo C-7030


Title: Re: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: Jonas on October 30, 2011, 05:13:15 PM
I still have no idea how I'm gonna listen to these cds...


Title: Re: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: Jay on October 30, 2011, 09:53:20 PM
Get an mp3 player instead. They're much easier than portable CD players. They're smaller than a portable CD player, and all you need is a headphone set that'll plug right into the mp3 player. Besides, if you have an mp3 player, you don't need to take cd's with you. You can just load all 5 discs into the player, and it'll stay there on the player until you plug it into the computer and physically delete everything.


Title: Re: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: Jonas on October 31, 2011, 04:25:46 AM
I suppose you're right Jay, I do have an mp3 player and I guess I can rip the cds at 320kbps, unless ipods can handle flac.

That being said, I was looking into a solid cdplayer for the full experience. I had my eye on the Onkyo C-7030, but now I'm not too sure.


Title: Re: Portable Cd players/headphone amps
Post by: Jay on October 31, 2011, 09:28:26 PM
Do you have FLAC files, as opposed to the regular CD's? I don't see why you'd have a problem with loading a regular CD into an mp3 player. Mine does it without a problem. But I have some boots in FLAC format that won't load.

I haven't owned an actual CD player for a few years now. When my last one died, I just hooked up my old Sony DVD player to the receiver, and it plays just like a normal CD player. I upgraded to a better DVD player, so I just figured I'd try to save money by seeing if my old DVD player would do the job.  ;D