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rewiring preamp will it work

Hello,

I currently have a AES AE-3 DJH preamp. I absolutely love it, but I recently decided to get more into headphone audio, and now need two RCA outputs on my preamp. I was wondering if it would be possible for me to rewire it two have two sets of RCA outs instead of one (one of the input RCAs could be rewired as an output since I only use one input)? I was just going to disconnect the wires on the output and instead connect it in parallel with the original output. I just wanted to check with you guys if this would actually work, or would it cause any problems with the preamp.

Thanks so much,

I appreciate it,
Ron
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jameswei
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Your headphones' impedance could be too low even all by itself. Many headphones have impedances like speakers', in the 4 to 16 ohm range. (Putting a high impedance amp in parallel to a pair of headphones would not make a lot of difference.)

Presumably, you would unplug the headphones while listening through your speakers, so the preamp should be OK then. But when listening through the headphones, the low impedance of the headphones could result in damanding more current from your preamp than it can supply without distortion, as others have already aluded.

So, why don't you plug your headphones into the output of your amp instead?
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