What would be a good portable Dac/Amp to use with my HD6xx and Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone?
I am new to this hobby. I purchased a HD6XX and plan to use it with my Sony Xperia 1 V cell phone, that has a 3.5mm jack. I was wondering if I needed a portable dac/amp or just a portable amp and if so what would one recommend? Any assistance one could provide, would be greatly appreciated. Kind regards, Haz
Mar 7, 2024
I would highly recommend getting a new stylus or cleaning the one you have very well, and cleaning your records using the wood glue method (yes wood glue, see youtube on that) to pull all the decades of crud out of the grooves, and ensure the best possible recording. Then convert the resulting wav file to lossless or high bit-rate file type of choice using iTunes. Then you are not limited to the sound of your turntable setup and can play your recorded LPs on anything anywhere anytime. I bought an Audio Technica AT-LP120 turntable with a new Shure stylus to convert a record collection in exactly that way. It works amazingly well. If you like the sound of LP's that is the way to go. If you like the cool factor of handling records and flipping them over as they slowly degrade each time they get played, and being limited to where you can listen to them, then maybe is not such a good solution for you.