Re: [EE] DAC-to-headphone-level output amp

Neil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.pic
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Gotcha. Thanks


On 12/19/2024 7:18 PM, Dwayne Reid wrote:
> Hi there, Neil.
>
> "AUX" level is usually -10dBV.  That level is fairly close to what 
> headphones are happy with.
>
> dwayne
>
>
> At 03:58 PM 12/19/2024, Neil wrote:
>> 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.
>
>

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