I was actually talking about their dedicated headphone amps, such as this:whyterabbyt wrote: Is that the 'MiniAmp 800'? That's nearly there but I need an independent stereo pair per person. They do do a basic stereo heaphone amp at about half the price of that model, I could just get 4 of them I suppose.
http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_ha47 ... aerker.htm
or this:
http://www.thomann.de/gb/behringer_ha80 ... oneamp.htm
The 4 channel one having the advance of a better stereo/aux-in mixing, the 8 channel one having the advance of 2 main stereo ins, but I actually found another one, a bit more simply but perhaps just what you need:
http://www.thomann.de/gb/millenium_hp_6.htm
6 stereo ins (ok, that's 2 too much, but you never know...), no further fuss.
Ok...8 outs, Im afraid; needs to be 4 stereo pairs.
Well, you would most likely run into higher costs with that Behringer and an ADAT/FW card.The Emu 1616 and the M-Audio 410 are fairly close in price, so either of those would do, I reckon. Pity there isnt something that was just firewire to ADAT I could use with a Behringer ADA8000 for the preamp/output stages.
Because, just recently, Alesis released this:
http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_io26.htm
8 mic ins, 8 analog outs, additional ADAT in. 438 Euro.
Actually, it's even got two headphone outs - no idea whether you could adress them separately from your host or the delivered direct mixing software.
I would use a dedciated HP amp though (especially given that they aren't all that expensive), so you have all the headphone levels in one central place.
Fwiw, when I think about it, the Alesis (along with whatever HP amp solution) should be almost perfect for your needs. Desktop/Laptop compatibility (something you'd need two cards for if using the EMU), enough I/Os and all that at really decent price.
The price actually is so decent that I'm wondering whether there's some serious drawbacks, such as sloppy drivers - but from a review of one of their other FW mixers I've read, their FW drivers seem to be fine. The hardware might not be too shiny either, and for mobile tasks I'd personally prefer it to be rack-style, but apart from that it seems to be a nice thing.
The good thing about Thomann (that's why I actually posted the links) is that they have a really, really nice money-back police. You just send the stuff back. Over here in germany they even give you a free back-shipping coupon, not sure about other parts of Europe.
But you could just order things and try them out.
