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Hi Audiogoners, greetings from the UK – I have a question that I hope someone will be able to answer for me.

Background: a lifelong music lover – (mostly contemporary ) and hifi enthusiast (albeit in a small way)  - now in my dotage and sadly with deteriorating hearing.

My system is an Abbingdon CD77, pre is a Melody 1688 II into a McIntosh 275 mk 4, B & W CM10 ser 2 speakers. Van den Hul cabling.

I want be able to use headphones and am not sure how to go about adding in an amp for them. Any suggestions and headphone recommends would be appreciated


xiang
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xiang OP
17 posts
 
Thanks - but this appears to be just a cheap marketing site
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oddiofyl
4,030 posts
 
Why would you say that?  It's mostly hobbiests that are willing to help or answer any question...  sometimes you need to give it some time.   I looked at your pre, it looks like there are hi level and lo level pre outs.   Ideally a fixed level output like a tape out is best to drive a headphone amp.   Some phones like Stax use the amplifiers speaker terminals to drive the amp.   

Honestly headphones are an extremely personal item... what I think is great may not appeal to you at all.  Having just purchased headphones the only advice I will give is to demo a bunch.  Like speakers , they all have different sound signatures.  

I just bought a pair of Grado RS2e and I love them,  others may not care for them at all.   
xiang OP
17 posts
 
Thank you for your suggestion, I shall be investigating further and demo-ing some options within my price range.
Re my comment  - did you see the link ? I believe it has now been deleted by Audiogon so I feel vindicated.
Regards
Xian
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