Initial report on the new Behringer HA4700 headphone amp

[tubedude]

Ok got it in...
Overall build quality seems ok...
Didnt quite fit in my rack right (but most things dont) hard to get screws in the right side after putting the left ones in.

Works excellent. I plugged in a pair of more-me's into channel one, cranked the input up to where the levels were coming in just shy of clipping (a nice feature by the way, meters on the input) and turned the channel level up to where iot was nice and loud, and I mean loud... took them off and stepped back. No weird farting sounds coming from the headphones. Very good sign. The others all fart on me when anything bassy hits the amps. This one isnt.
Tried all 4 channels, all worked fine.
One thing I noticed (famous behringer QC here) is that the meter on channel 3 dies very slowly... say I kill the source, all the other meters die instantly, that one dies one LED at a time for about 10 seconds before its all clear. Weird, almost like it has a bad latency or something.
The EQ's didnt seem all that great, but good for adding some top to flat phones or pulling some bottom from phones that dont handle it well at high volumes.
Otherwise, it looks decent, lots of blinky things, and sound fine, I've very satisifed at this point.
Looks like a winner at $99.
Gets my endorsement, for now anway.

 

[mrface2112]

good to hear it!

i placed the order for one yesterday afternoon. my band's been grousing about "harvey's headphones sucking", but i know it's due to the fact that we're not getting enough clean signal to the cans. this should alleviate that. kinda hard when you're building piece by piece to get everything in place at once, eh?

although, it was a bit of a trip last week after practice.....our lead guitarist is listening to the recording on my Senn HD-580's and he says "WOW, this sounds really good.....why don't my headphones sound like this?" of course, his cans are the $20 More-Me's....and then i had to explain that if he wanted his headphones to sound like that, he was more than welcome to buy a set of senns and bring em over......some folks expect to spend nothing and get the world, it seems.


anyway, hoping the HA4700 ships today so we'll have it in place for thursday night.......b/c i'd like to make em shut up about the MoreMe's sucking....b/c they DON'T.


wade

 

[tubedude]

I use the 580's also, and everyone grouches that I dont let anyone else use them. I let people take a listen real quick, but other than that they get $20 phones. The 580's kick every bit of ass within ass kicking range, and then some.
I know the More-Me's sound hollow and cheap cby comparison, but then most phones do... I think I really good amp is needed to keep the more-me's in check.

Let me know if the amp solves or helps your problem any, it SEEMS to have helped mine, but I've yet to hit a session with it.

DEFINATELY keep us posted on your results, and see if you meter does the same thing mine does.

Peace.

 

[mrface2112]

well, looks like the 4700 won't get here til friday, and thursday night is the rehearsal. so i guess it'll have to wait til next week to get busted out. i'm bummed about that.

i got my 580's for $100 at Crutchfield's Outlet....they were an open box (more like mangled box) buy and the right cord is a little flaky at times. BFD. they've been one of the best $100 that i've ever spent. such amazing fidelity. i recorded a thunderstorm the other night and listened to playback on them last night.....at one point you can hear my wife open and close the front door, and it scared the absolute shit out of me--it sounded like it came from behind me.

i do like the sound of the more-me's...but they do need a little bit of signal to drive them.....and the aux outputs of my wackie 24*4 just doesn't have the clean headroom (and it's not designed to).

i *was* trying to give everyone custom mixes, which gets painful for 5 guys who can't make up their freaking minds whether they really do need more guitar or not........so when the 4700 shows up, i'll just be giving everyone the main mix (off one of the board's headphone outs--which has more juice anyway), and then thanks to the aux in's on the 4700 i can provide a couple custom "i need more vocals" type things if need-be.

i wanted to buy your Rolls amp, tubedude, but since it only powered 4 cans (and i needed 5) and didn't have aux ins on the channels, i had to pass. but i WILL be taking your advice on picking up some 421's and 441's when the opportunity arises. it's easy to see i'm fast becoming a sennheiser fan.


wade

 

[tubedude]

Did a vocal session with it tonight, got it loud enough to cause a feedback loop with the more-mes... no farting.
I guess I'm happy, and the price is extra excellent.