alternatives to headphone amps
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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.
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).
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.