Hello, I just joined, primarily for the audiophile products. Looking at purchasing the NHT C3 speakers for our new living room. Space is about 15 feet wide by 33 long and they will fire long ways. Space is just for general listening, music room with all equipment is downstairs, so hoping they will fill it with sound nicely. Cheers.
Mar 18, 2024
if you use option 1 connected to another amp, then you will be double amping which is not optimal. Preferably you want a headphone amp that accepts a line in as input, many do (the Grace m9XX doesn't).
I do this: iPod Classic -> 30 pin lineout cable (FiiO L9 L-Shaped Line Out Dock Cable) -> FiiO E12 Mont Blanc portable amp. I have no problems with this, and it drives my AKG K7XX and HE 400i decently (though not as nicely as the Grace does being driven by either my Mac (USB) or CD player (TOSLINK)) . Periodically Massdrop has headphone amps that take line in as input.
Hope this helps...