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July 20th, 2012 00:00

Headphone impedance on my n5110?

I'VE LOOKED AND LOOKED AND CAN'T FIND ANY DOCUMENTATION. CAN ANY ONE TELL ME WHAT THE IMPEDANCE IS FOR MY HEAD PHONE JACK ON MY N5110 PLEASE SO I CAN BUY THE RIGHT HEAD PHONES.

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July 20th, 2012 01:00

The laptop output (which is a low impedance) is suitable for all normal "low impedance" phones which covers 99% of what you will come across. Most headphones are in the 10 to 50 ohm impedance range.

If you try and use high impedance phones (say 600 ohm or higher) then you will find the audio level too quiet as they need a lot of voltage to drive them.

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July 20th, 2012 05:00

D_railed , the IDT 92HD87 data sheet can be googled and downloaded. That is the audio chip in the N5110 line. It confirms what Mooly01 said.

Most headphones are in the 10 to 50 ohm impedance range.

In the IDT 92HD87 data sheet, they use a load of 32 ohms when determining the impedance and wattage of the headphone outputs of the chip, so I would think that 32 is a typical number. They use a load of 32 ohms and also 10,000 ohms to determine the signal to noise ratio. In both cases the SNR is 95dB.

The data sheet says "The capless headphone drivers are supplied with +/-2.5V derived from AVDD. Therefore, it is possible
to run the headphone supply from 5V and maintain ~60mW peak output power into 32 ohm
headphones. Headphone performance will degrade if more than one port is driving a 32 ohm load."

The laptop output (which is a low impedance)

According to the data sheet  the headphone outputs of the amp are 0.1 ohm.

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July 20th, 2012 11:00

HOW'D YOU DO THAT? I LOOKED AND LOOKED AND COULD NOT FIND THAT INFO. GUESS IT HELPS TO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK!               

YOU ARE A ROCK STAR...THANK YOU!

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July 20th, 2012 15:00

Just want to thank Mooly01 for the help...thank you very much!

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July 20th, 2012 14:00

Thanks but Mooly01 gave the first  correct answer imo. I just confirmed.

Well I knew about IDT data sheets because I have been doing this for a long time, so it was just a matter of finding out which model IDT chip by looking in the specifications section of the N5110 User Guide and then googling.

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July 21st, 2012 00:00

Your welcome... pleased it was of help.

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