Headphone Amps?

You have some options. If you want the headphone amp/ jack coming from your amplifier, it would be the output of the headphone amp to the input of your headphone amplifier. Similarly you can connect the amplifier directly to the CD player. Check out this manual for the Creek OBH 11 headphone amp for different set-ups

Rich

Your looking for a fixed volume output like a tape out.

My MD-209 doesn't have one, so I use a second set of outputs from my DAC direct into the headphone amplifier.

Thank you all. I already have a tube buffer in my epi. What about from pre out?

Thanks for the replies,

Alan

Pre-out would work. If you get an HP amp w a pre-amp loop, you can go from the pre-out to the HP amp and back to the pre-in and then you won't have to swap interconnects around.

The problem with using pre-outs is that you would probably not have a convenient means of disabling the sound from the speakers while listening to headphones.

It looks like your AX-7e has tape outs, which presumably are "ahead" of the volume control in the signal path and therefore should be suitable, as was suggested above (assuming, as is likely, that the headphone amp has a high enough input impedance to be suitable for use with the tape outs).

Not sure what "tube buffer in my epi" refers to, or how that might be utilized for headphone listening.

Regards,
-- Al