alternatives to headphone amps

I would like to get better input than is available from the headphone jacks common to some cd players and intergated amps without buying an expensive headphone amp. Is there a safe way to connect the output of a cd player or the pre outs of my amp to headphones? I remmeber that transformers were once used to connect an amp's speaker output terminals to headphones, but this method is no longer in use.

Music in the Round #33 Recordings In The Round

Music in the Round #33 Recordings In The Round

Welcome to the wonderful world of firmware and software updates. With almost every audio device now microprocessor-controlled, and the tasks to be performed increasingly complex, it's not surprising that "finished" products leave the factory only to be stymied by reasonable but unpredicted user practices. It's not that we're all becoming beta testers, but we are contributing to the intelligent evolution of product capabilities.

Music in the Round #33 Contacts

Music in the Round #33 Contacts

Welcome to the wonderful world of firmware and software updates. With almost every audio device now microprocessor-controlled, and the tasks to be performed increasingly complex, it's not surprising that "finished" products leave the factory only to be stymied by reasonable but unpredicted user practices. It's not that we're all becoming beta testers, but we are contributing to the intelligent evolution of product capabilities.

Music in the Round #33 Page 2

Music in the Round #33 Page 2

Welcome to the wonderful world of firmware and software updates. With almost every audio device now microprocessor-controlled, and the tasks to be performed increasingly complex, it's not surprising that "finished" products leave the factory only to be stymied by reasonable but unpredicted user practices. It's not that we're all becoming beta testers, but we are contributing to the intelligent evolution of product capabilities.

Music in the Round #33

Music in the Round #33

Welcome to the wonderful world of firmware and software updates. With almost every audio device now microprocessor-controlled, and the tasks to be performed increasingly complex, it's not surprising that "finished" products leave the factory only to be stymied by reasonable but unpredicted user practices. It's not that we're all becoming beta testers, but we are contributing to the intelligent evolution of product capabilities.

Zappa Returns! Wazoo

Zappa Returns! Wazoo

Frank Zappa was well known for a lot of things—his sharp satiric wit, his virtuoso guitar improvisations, his excellence as a bandleader, his fearlessness in combating hostile political forces and crooked record-industry executives. But Zappa is all too rarely given credit for his status as one of the most creative musical imaginations of the 20th century, regardless of genre.

Zappa Returns! Page 2

Zappa Returns! Page 2

Frank Zappa was well known for a lot of things—his sharp satiric wit, his virtuoso guitar improvisations, his excellence as a bandleader, his fearlessness in combating hostile political forces and crooked record-industry executives. But Zappa is all too rarely given credit for his status as one of the most creative musical imaginations of the 20th century, regardless of genre.

Zappa Returns!

Zappa Returns!

Frank Zappa was well known for a lot of things—his sharp satiric wit, his virtuoso guitar improvisations, his excellence as a bandleader, his fearlessness in combating hostile political forces and crooked record-industry executives. But Zappa is all too rarely given credit for his status as one of the most creative musical imaginations of the 20th century, regardless of genre.

MM/MC phone preamp help

Hi, you have all been so helpful in the past. I am in the midst of switching turntables from my old tech 1200's to a real listening machine. I have decided on the pro-ject 9.1 (a decent $2000 belt drive), with a Sumiko blue point special evo III (MC). This has caused a dilemma as the phone preamp in my Arcam a70 is for a MM. I assume I will need to buy a MC/MM preamp to add some more gain stages to the sumiko cart.. I really like the way this cartridge sounds so going back to MM, I think, is out of the question.

20-20khz. (JA? KR?)

This is prompted in part by the near-war going on in another forum about the Furutech demag.

Audio writers, especially those of the objective data type, talk about 20hz-20khz being the limits of human hearing, excepting the occasional young person (when I was 16, I could clearly hear out to 22khz without more than about a 3db drop).

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