What a great idea for a project enclosure. I’ll remember this in future.

Posted at 8:12 am on Jul 1st, 2008 by Liam

I will do it for myself.

Posted at 9:41 am on Jul 1st, 2008 by Marcin

now *this* is a hack! bravo

Posted at 11:43 am on Jul 1st, 2008 by andrew

Nice Stealth Factor,

This can be done for virtually FREE using trash.

Step 1. Get your old Walkman tape player
Step 2. Locate and remove the Magnetic tape head
Step 3. Wire the 3 wires up to a stereo jack of your choice for input.
Step4. Plug your headphone into the walkman and turn it on/press play etc

Optionally you can remove the mechanics that deal with the tape.

-If you dont feel like ruining your walkmen, you can do the same thing with a cassette Tape->1/8″ stereo adapter. Put the tape in the walkmen, press play, and plug the 1/8″ stereo male end into any sound source you wish to amplify.

PRESTO

Posted at 12:32 pm on Jul 1st, 2008 by 36chambers

@4 I love the walkman enclosure idea. I keep looking at the yellow sports walkman I have and wondering why I am keeping it since I have no more tapes!

Gio

Posted at 4:17 pm on Jul 1st, 2008 by diy audio projects

Thats one of the neatest headphone amps Ive seen. Low part count too. Is it just me or have we only had one hack today? Could this be a return to the old format?

Posted at 4:29 pm on Jul 1st, 2008 by f00 f00

36chambers:
The problem is that some high-end headphones need more power than any of these devices can supply. You will either end up with loud distorted music, or having the music still too quiet. A computer plugged in to the wall can’t power these things, why would a tape player off batteries be able to do it reasonably?

Posted at 9:27 pm on Jul 1st, 2008 by atrain

I see Grado headphones…man, those cans sound great!

Very cool hack…although, it’d look a little odd since many don’t use the headphone jack on those units, and external drives aren’t as popular as they used to be.

Posted at 8:31 pm on Jul 9th, 2008 by PlasmaFire