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Originally posted by SteveD:
Desperado said

"You may want to consider getting an external headphone amp."

I don't really follow how getting a separate headphone amplifier would alleviate having to keep plugging and unplugging a connector in the headphone jack? Perhaps I am missing something? But it did give me an idea to use the tape outputs as inputs for the 'phones, although this would not work out well for the tape deck... The lack of a headphone jack on the 950 preamp is a major oversight IMHO.



You can use a headphone amp inserted into your tape loop. Then you can keep the phones plugged in at all times. Most people using the 950 will also prefer a seperate headphone amp. I have rarely seen a preamp or reciver that can compete with even a relatively inexpensive headphone amp such as the Creek OBH-11. My only experience was with an Adcom GFP-565 preamp. It's headphone jack was equal to the Creek but nowhere near my McCormack MID, sonically that is.