cw: i put your question to my older son, who has the same notebook as yours (he is, BTW, a second generation audiophile, as well). his first concern with your proposed setup is power consumption. unless your notebook is running on an ac adapter, you'll drain your batteries quite quickly. he listens to mp3's and watches dvd's when traveling, using $100.00 sony headphones. not as good, of course, as top-of-the-line grado's but a helluva lot better than you'll get watching movies on any model boeing or airbus. it's another question entirely if you're looking at getting high-quality sound from your desk-based pc, but that's not the subject of your thread. in any event, i've asked my son to do some further research, which i'll post if and when i learn the results. happy computin' -kelly
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While I recognize that "PC Audio" may never compete with the excitement of SOTA home gear, isn't ANYBODY interested? I am not about to throw away my records for MP-3 files, but I am interested in further exploring PC based concepts, primarily for traveling. On that subject, does anyone know how I might get a line level signal from my Sony VAIO Z505 notebook to then output into a Headroom amplifier? Or do I have to use the cheesey internal amp and headphone jack which might defeat the purpose of using the amp and decent headphones in the first place? If I can get this thing to even sound half way listenable, movies and music on transatlantic flights might be a lot of fun. Thank you.