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One of my own design that combines National Semiconductor's LM4562 with a high speed buffer.

A Headroom Traveller pack of 1998 vintage with the Class-A amp and the big 4 x D cell red box. I have a wall-wart "tweaked" for home use. ERs4s and Sennheiser TV 40s.

A Rega headphone amp. I am in the market for a warmer and more detailed amp.

I use a HeadRoom Total Airhead to pump a set of Shure E2G IEMs. My source is a 4GB flash iAudio U3, which lets me source Ogg and FLAC files. This forms a killer portable system that rides on my upper arm while I hike in my local national park.

Musical Fidelity X Can V3

Grado RA-1

I use an old Stax SR 60 but the box between amp and phones needs repair, it doesn't like high levels.

I have a Sennheiser HD600 model and Creek OBH21-SE headphone amp, the sound is really great, my Pathos Classic One mkii amp runs with out headphone jack.

Emmeline The Hornet

Musical Fidelity Xcan V 3. With the right 'phones, it slays anything through my speakers.

Well, I dedicated my Dynaco Stereo 35, with one 100 ohm half watt resistor in series with each channel signal into a junction box for my Sennheiser DH-600. Works fine!

Dedicated 'phone system.

I have a Headamp Gilmore Lite with Dedicated power supply.

Singlepower MPX3

For the casual listener, a plug in headphone jack suffices. For the serious headphone enthusiast, dedicated headphone amplification is the way to go. Having said that, headphones or in-the-ear phones gives what is commonly known as "binaural" sound and not exactly stereo sound. Sound appears to come from the center of the head between both left and right ears of the listener. Whether one likes it or not is a matter of choice and preference.

The only place I normally listen to headphones is at the office, and there I sometimes use my Grado headphone amp.

I used to listen to my over-the-ear headphones often when I plugged them into the Sony STR-V55 receiver I used to use. It must have had pretty decent amplification to the headphone jack as the sound was very good. Then I replaced the Sony receiver with a Yamaha separate preamp and amp. The sound that comes out of the phone jack on the Yamaha preamp is not nearly as good as it was from the Sony receiver. I need to purchase a decent dedicated headphone amp but just have never gotten around to doing that. Where I live there are not a lot of places where you can actually listen to and purchase them and ordering direct from a manufacture kind of concerns if the purchase does not work out.

I use a HeadRoom portable amp with the case designed for my 80GB iPod—all songs in Apple Lossless Processing.

I use a Grado battery powered amp for my Grado 325is so I can listen to the 24/96 WAV LP recordings made with a Grado Statement cartridge.

Benchmark DAC1 and Sennheiser HD600.

Pro-ject Head Box SE

Melos SHA-Gold!

Melos SHA-1. Nothing wrong with an old, reliable friend.

Musical Fidelity XCan V3

Blockhead HeadRoom

I use a Creek OBH-21 with a pair of Beyerdynamic DT-931s for my late-night musical cravings.

Musical Fidelity X-canV3. Clean, spacious, excellent.

I use an amp that Ah! (the firm that made a popular modded Marantz CD-player) made for a short time. It works just fine with my Sennheiser HD590. It has a tape loop, which makes it easy to install between my md-deck and "big amp."

DHT headphone amp.

My iPod does just fine.