Headphone Amps?

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

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