[EE] DAC-to-headphone-level output amp
Neil <[email protected]>
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I'm designing a one-off device for myself that will generate audio from a microcontroller and I want to send that audio to a small BLE audio transmitter (something I picked up on Amazon). The BLE transmitter has a 3.5mm headphone plug and they specify it's for "Aux" level devices, but works very well when plugged into my PC or cellphone, so I take that to mean headphone level. FWIW, the audio signal is mono, but I want to drive both left and right channels. Researching online gets me a whole lot of different answers -- everything from line level being 10k ohms input impedance and 1V or 2V to 3V and headphone level is 8 to 600 ohms, with voltage level from 0.3 to 0.8V (though I would've expected headphone level to be higher since it's amplified). Can anyone shed some light on this please. I'm unsure what I'd be designing for... should I just do an op-amp with a very low output impedance and adjustable volume until it sounds decent? Or is there a spec I should follow? Alternately, I'd be happy if there's some simple monolithic chip that would do this for me (take a 0V-3.3V audio signal from a uC DAC and convert it to headphone level audio). Cheers, -Neil.