About this page-index: this came about to list specifications, data and hyperlinks from Excel files for headphones and headphone amplifiers in the Head-Fi discussion forum.

Headphones and headphone amplifiers, last updated 6/6/2006:

Headphones models specifications and prices over $90 (463 kb) (web page - list is in cells, columns and rows)
Headphone amplifiers specifications and prices (229 kb) (web page - list is in cells, columns and rows)

These spreadsheets have all Headphones, Headphone amps, Batteries and Links worksheets:

I just installed OpenOffice 1.1, a free open source program by Sun Microsystems. This is a superb alternative for using Microsoft Office (which for years has been one of my favorite and most used programs). OpenOffice has a spreadsheet and word processor just like MS Office. Files from MS Office can be opened, worked on and saved in OpenOffice. Sun Microsystems also has a pay version of OpenOffice called StarOffice. To manage and upload this website I use Tripod, which can do just about anything any non-commercial site can do easily (great for beginners too). Also I use for HTML editors (yes, freeware of course) AceHTML and HTML-Kit (my current favorite). Another thing, to best use OpenOffice, it's best to download the latest version of Java 1st.

I have been into high-end audio since high school in the early nineteen seventies. The past year or so I ventured into the HTPC (Home Theater PC) Discussion Forum and discovered you can eliminate the need for a preamplifier with a good sound card (another list I will post later on). HDTV or high-end video can integrate with high-end audio all in 1 PC, it is also cheaper to upgrade too. So later I should add my Excel workbook and links for monitors, HDTV's, sound cards, motherboards, video cards, Ram, Hard drives, software, speaker design software...

From speaker design software and DIY speaker designs: I have 4-way spherical ceramic speakers each driver in its own sphere, all 1^st order and time/phase coherent (designed) and studied everything from crossover design to baffle diffraction and Pi space room interaction. I went through just about all types of speaker box and infinite baffle designs imaginable. Then also looked at horn speakers like the Oris 150 DIY to the $50,000+ Avantgardes driven by 1.5-watt tube amplifiers (but horns need help and another amp and speaker with the subwoofer bass frequencies and a lot of cash).

Fine, but that brings headphones in the picture. You can achieve audiophile hi-end speaker performance A LOT cheaper! Also you can have ultimate portability as well as sound. So your headphone system is not a dance studio or giant movie theater with the walls shaking. The bass and sound is really just as, if not more, deep and accurate with headphones. Think of it as VERY near field listening. The best speakers usually sound even better when they are placed in the near field position.

My Headphones web page in Excel had dead end hyperlinks but now should all be working. Even if you have another spreadsheet program, it should let you open the file up in the desired format (for your spreadsheet program). Enjoy!

This web site is a work in progress (if you call an enjoyable hobby work). It is coming along slowly but surely. If you would like to e-mail me with additions or suggestions you can. I'd also like to note that I am not affiliated with any of these software companies mentioned above in any way, shape or form.