Personal Portable Amp

rascaljim · Post by **rascaljim** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 1:32 pm

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

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:46 pm

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/

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 5:53 pm

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?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 8:50 am

That could be painful!

sinfonian · Post by **sinfonian** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:56 am

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).

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:34 am

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.

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 11:57 am

One can always get one of these...

Dave Hayami · Post by **Dave Hayami** » Mon Jan 02, 2006 10:39 pm

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