I recently decided to set-up a headphone rig and have mercy on my better half when I listen to music late at night. I bought Shure 440 phones and a T-Amp headphone amp. I have the T-Amp hooked to the tape out monitor outputs on the 950. I'm having a problem with waaay too much gain to the T-Amp in this configuration. I can only turn up the volume on the T-Amp 10-20% until I get major clipping. Below that it sounds pretty darn good. I'm trying some Harris -12db inline attenuators that do the job and choke the gain but I don't really like the way they sound. They make the T-Amp usuable but it sounds lifeless with them in the signal path. I'm wondering if it would be better to use the Zone output on the 950 instead of the tape out? Are the output voltages the same from the Zone and the tape out? Any ideas, advice, info, opinions would be appreciated.
Regards, Sam