Henry Engineering Guest Pod II | Headphone Amplifier

If you want a professional headphone listening system for your broadcast or podcast studio, outfit your location with the Henry Engineering Guest Pod II. This is a compact stereo headphone amplifier that can accept and distribute sound, either over analog 1/4" TRS connections, or over Cat 5 cable with RJ45 connections.

The headphone amplifier offers a front-panel volume knob and two user-assingable buttons, typically used either as a mute for coughs, or to engage a talkback function with the engineers. Use either 1/4" or 3.5mm connections for headphones.

The Guest Pod II works great on its own, but it can also be used with Henry Engineering's MultiPhones Master Unit. A power adapter is available separately, but once you purchase one, you'll find you'll be able to connect multiple Guest Pod IIs over the Cat 5 cable.

Daisy-Chaining
Multiple Guest Pod IIs can be linked using Cat 5 cabling to produce a multi-user headphone listening system. If you use the device with the MultiPhones Master Unit, you can link up to 12 Guest Pod IIs.

Multiple Use-Cases
For stand-alone use, stereo audio is fed to the two 1/4" input jacks, and a 9 to 12 VAC power source can be connected to the power jack. Multiple Guest Pods can be daisy-chained together using Cat 5 cabling so that audio and power are distributed to all units. Another installation option is to use Cat 5 cabling to distribute power, and feed a separate audio signal to each Guest Pod.

Assignable, Modifiable Buttons
The Cough and Talkback buttons provide SPDT contacts with LED illumination, and can be user-wired to any pinout required via the Control RJ45 connector.

Suits Almost Any Headphone
The MultiPhones Guest Pod II is optimized for use with contemporary high-efficiency headphones. Because each Guest Pod II contains its own amplifier, any combination of different headphones can be used. There is no interaction between units, and no degradation of audio performance regardless of the number of Guest Pods in the system. The Cat 5 linking uses low-Z balanced audio distribution so that long cable runs do not degrade audio quality.