Can anyone tell me if using a 20ft. extension cord on a very good set of headphones will degrade the sound quality? Thanks.
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Submitted By: Welty3
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Headphone extension
Posted: January 27, 2007 - 2:57pm
Submitted By: Tyll
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Re: Headphone extension
Posted: January 28, 2007 - 7:07am
The performance loss of a good 20' extension will be just audible, in my experience, while a 15' of the same cable isn't. But I think it's mostly a measure of the cable; if you used very expensive cable you might get 20' without hearing it. Also likely depends on the output impedance of the amp - the higher the output impedence the more likely you are to hear problems.
Submitted By: Welty3
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Re: Headphone extension
Posted: January 28, 2007 - 9:47am
Thanks Tyll, I'll try a 15ft. cord.
Submitted By: mrlowry
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Re: Headphone extension
Posted: April 24, 2007 - 6:25pm
Grado makes a nice headphone extension cable that offers the bare minimum of degradation (there is ALWAYS some loss.)
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