Fiio makes a Headphone amp that is about the same hight as the clip and half as wide (again I am guessing as to exact size) and many people use them with good reasults.
mp3gain can increase the volume of tracks, but watch out for clipping. I level the volume of everything because I hate having to adjust the volume when listening to music on shuffle.
First off, I am an avid cyclist and must say that using headphones while riding a bike is not only dangerous, but against the law in many areas. You need to use all your senses to keep yourself safe while sharing the road/streets with the ‘cagers’ (people in cars). If you rockin’ out to AC/DC at full volume, you can’t hear that car coming up behind you that has drifted into the bike lane because the driver is looking at that nice-looking girl on the other side of the street.
I wish this weren’t the reality today, but unfortunately I read and hear on the news all too often of accidents involving cyclists and cars. And right or wrong, the person on the bike loses. Always! (2 amateur racers were killed near here just last year by a County Sheriff’s Deputy who feel asleep at the wheel and drifted across the center line & hit them head-on).
I agree that it’s easy & fun keeping a cadence or steady rpm while pedaling to certain tunes, but please . . . do this only on a trainer or stationary bike, like in the gym. When you’re on the street, replay your favorite songs & pedal to them only in your head. Leave the mp3 player at home.
OK, lecture over . . . when you get home, you can boost the volume with a headphone amp. Two very popular ones due to their small size, price and excellent output are the FiiO E3 (AAA battery-powered basic model) and E5 (re-chargable battery, volume control and clip for attaching to clothes, also about the same size as the Clip).
First off, I am an avid cyclist and must say that using headphones while riding a bike is not only dangerous, but against the law in many areas. You need to use all your senses to keep yourself safe while sharing the road/streets with the ‘cagers’ (people in cars). If you rockin’ out to AC/DC at full volume, you can’t hear that car coming up behind you that has drifted into the bike lane because the driver is looking at that nice-looking girl on the other side of the street.
I wish this weren’t the reality today, but unfortunately I read and hear on the news all too often of accidents involving cyclists and cars. And right or wrong, the person on the bike loses. Always! (2 amateur racers were killed near here just last year by a County Sheriff’s Deputy who feel asleep at the wheel and drifted across the center line & hit them head-on).
I agree that it’s easy & fun keeping a cadence or steady rpm while pedaling to certain tunes, but please . . . do this only on a trainer or stationary bike, like in the gym. When you’re on the street, replay your favorite songs & pedal to them only in your head. Leave the mp3 player at home.
OK, lecture over . . . when you get home, you can boost the volume with a headphone amp. Two very popular ones due to their small size, price and excellent output are the FiiO E3 (AAA battery-powered basic model) and E5 (re-chargable battery, volume control and clip for attaching to clothes, also about the same size as the Clip).
I see the same thing with runners with IEM’s inserted, and wonder how the heck they know if a car is coming up behind them. I feel safe walking through town with my ksc75’s because they are an open phone, and I can hear the cars…and I don’t crank the tunes to block out the traffic noise…but I would never do it with IEM’s.
Any thoughts on which of the two amps. mentioned is preferable?
The more expensive of the two looks a lot larger. Is it worth the extra money?
Regards,
Len
The E5 is better overall. Rechargable battery, twice the power, selectable bass boost. volume control, and the handy clip, which the E3 doesn’t have. Also, it’s much sturdier. Well worth the $$.
Any thoughts on which of the two amps. mentioned is preferable?
The more expensive of the two looks a lot larger. Is it worth the extra money?
Regards,
Len
The E5 is better overall. Rechargable battery, twice the power, selectable bass boost. volume control, and the handy clip, which the E3 doesn’t have. Also, it’s much sturdier. Well worth the $$.
One more question. It seems that the only issue some users have experienced is the
turnaround time between ordering and getting the unit. Is that an old issue or does it still take weeks to
get it?
Regards,
Len
It depends on where you get it from. I ordered mine on Amazon.com and it came in about a week, but I paid $8 more…for me, it was worth it, rather than wait an unknown amount of time. Dealextreme, focalprice, mp4nation…these I have heard can take much longer, but will be cheaper…depends on your patience level, which way you go.
I suppose you are listening the Clip with the headphones you got with it.
If you want it louder and want to cancel surrounding noise you could for a start get noise-canceling earbuds with a decent sensitivity - the one with rubber bulbs to push them deeper in the ears. I have an pocket amp (cmoy) for home listening with a big headphones. But when working around the house (cutting, grinding and welding steel or doing other noisy works with saw and big hammer) I don’t want extra stuff in my pocket. So I got some half-decent 50€ Sony earbuds which souns rather good to my surprise (way better then the Clip headphone I must say) and doing nice job to cancel most of the noise from arround. They are also handy when I play games and I want to cancel TV and other surrounding noise.
