headphones for tube system



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

Showing 1 response by oddiofyl

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.