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Author Topic: how long can you run a headphone cable from the audio interface?  (Read 6048 times)

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El Chiguete

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Guys how long can you run a headphone cable from the audio interface? I thinking on reordering my room and if I do that I will need be running a long headphone cable from the audio interface but dont know what effects will that have on the sound coming out of the headphones.

Any thoughts?
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Well i use one that is about 5m without problems.Made it myself using 3 x 0.5mm² (or 20 AWG) cable.Depends a bit on the tickness of the cable.With 0.5 you can go even up to 10m without problems.
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Probably depends on what's driving the cans (head phones) and impedance etc but I've also run quite long HP extension leads without any issue. I have a couple of Behringer rack head phone amps, not too expensive and gives you lots of versatility.  Very useful if your doing harmonies vox overdubs and need to have a few sets available for the other singers etc
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Well yesterday I bought online a pair of Sennheinser HD280 PRO headphones and a 25' Hosa cable extantion, so next week I will test them out! :)
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Sennheisers are good,i have a HD497,got for more then 10 years now.Just needed to change the cable a few times but for the rest kickass headphone.
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I use a small 4-channel headphone amplifier - you get a tremendous distance that way.
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