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Some time ago I bought a pair of in ear headphones and I am very pleased with them, but I don't have a decent headphone amplifier for them at home. So I searched the web and became very interested in building a headphone amplifier BUF634 and OPA627 combination. I decided to use the circuit in figure 5. from the BUF634 datasheet, in this configuration the amplifier operates in class A up to approx. 14-15 mW with a 32 ohm headphone, which is more than enough for me. We have finished the amplifier now and I am very pleased the sound, plenty of bass with in ear headphones and otherwise a clear and precise sound.
Below you can see some pictures of my brother’s design (click on the picture to enlarge it):

Updated! The power supply schematic.  

This is the first version of the power supply printed circuit board.

 

The modified +/- 15 Volt power supply printed circuit board, with 2x1000uF to stabilize the power supply.

Pcb file updated 2009.08.27
Updated! The potentiometer schematic.  

This is the printed circuit board with the volume potentiometer.

The volume potentiometer printed circuit board, with a nice Alps audio potentiometer. Pcb file updated 2009.08.27
Updated! The audio schematic.  
The over side of the main printed circuit board, we choose to make it double sided to get a good groundplane.  
The bottom side of main pcb.  
And this is the finished main printed circuit board, with BUF634 and OPA627, as we can't buy black gate capacitors any more we used the best audio capacitors we could buy from RS components.
Pcb file updated 2009.08.27
Take a look at the front of the finished amplifier, I am very pleased with the design, and the impressive Neutrik 6,3mm headphone connector.
 
This is the back of the finished amplifier, we choose to let the audio signal pass through the amplifier and have mounted it in the audio signal way between the preamplifier and the power amplifier. This gives the advantage of remote controlled signal source and volume. The volume potentiometer in the amplifier is used to adjust the signal level for the chosen in ear headphones. We use a 14 Volt AC, 500 mA wall outlet from Conrad to power the amplifier.  

Here is a look inside the finished amplifier, we have choosen to mount heat sinks on the BUF634 even though it is not really necassary.  
 
We ordered the aluminum front and back plates from Schaeffer Apparatebau as we are very pleased with their work. There is a link to the firm web site on the Links webpage.  Cad file updated 2009.08.27

This page was last updated 2010-02-17.