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RE: Odd thing about cans ...

Posted by genungo on August 4, 2011 at 11:36:13

In Reply to: Odd thing about cans ... posted by reelsmith. on August 4, 2011 at 10:36:09:

Oh yeah. And, that's part of the reason why a crossfeed circuit can make headphone listening more comfortable at times. Another thing you can do (but only if you have "open" headphones) is to split the signal line before the headphone amp and route one line level cable into your regular loudspeaker system. With the volume level of the loudspeaker amp set very low, you can run your speakers as low level background monitors that work to "fill in" some of the missing stereo info that normal headphones delete. As a bonus, you can keep on following the music if you leave your headphones to walk around the house for some reason. This idea is not a new one - the Decware CSP2+ headphone amp, for example, features line level out jacks that output signal at 1/10th volume ratio whenever headphones are plugged in. That way, you can run your loudspeakers as low level background monitors just as I've described.

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