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Personal Portable Amp
Posted: Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:32 pm
by rascaljim
Ok... so I guess everybody's so worried about being sued over someone listening to their cd player too loud and losing their hearing or something like that. All the equipment I own (protable dvd, cd player, minidisc, etc...) I can barely hear whenever I'm doing anything besides listening in a quite place. I tried getting a pair of noise canceling headphones and it only seems to help a little. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I might be able to find as a small amp or something like that so I can listen to recordings on the 'eL' train or on a plane or something.
Thanks
Jim Langenberg
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:46 pm
by tubatooter1940
I wanted to travel without pulling a trailer to a gig in Birmingham,Alabama,so I loaded our small 300 watt P.A. system with the 10 inch speakers for guitar, vocals and harmonica and took only one of our EON self-powered speakers with 15 inch speaker with a horn. I found that if we turned the treble off the EON, it made a dandy tuba amp and did no damage to the tweeter.
www.johnreno.com/
Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:53 pm
by Dan Schultz
tubatooter1940 wrote:I wanted to travel without pulling a trailer to a gig in Birmingham,Alabama,so I loaded our small 300 watt P.A. system with the 10 inch speakers for guitar, vocals and harmonica and took only one of our EON self-powered speakers with 15 inch speaker with a horn. I found that if we turned the treble off the EON, it made a dandy tuba amp and did no damage to the tweeter.
www.johnreno.com/
Have any luck running that 300 watts through an Ipod?
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:50 am
by tubatooter1940
That could be painful!
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:56 am
by sinfonian
Jim
I have been looking for an affordable amp for a while myself, (I take Metra not the "El" though). A couple that I have found are:
http://www.headphone.com/products/headphone-amps/
Or if you do a seach on ebay
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dl ... dphone+amp
Hope this helps more then the 300W amp in a trailer ( I don't think the CTA will let the trailer on during rush hours).
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:34 am
by prototypedenNIS
a tube amp?
get it tube... as in vacumm tubes on guitar amps and such and tube as in tuba...
FINE... IT WASN'T FUNNY!turns around walks away, slams door. Picture falls off wall from door slam and breaks on the floor.
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:57 am
by Dylan King
One can always get one of these...
Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:39 pm
by Dave Hayami
Happy New Year,
I bought a 3 channel headphone booster from Radio Shack(uses 2 AA batteries) last year for my kids portable dvd player before a long road trip. It kept all happy,(me driving, the kids watching and not asking when we'll be there)
Hope this helps,
Dave Hayami