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Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback?

I have a pretty good analog setup: SME deck, Koetsu cart, Pass Labs phono preamp.  I'm not sure if this is a thing that many people do, but I'm interested in listening to vinyl exclusively through headphones.  If I connect a tube headphone amp to my phono stage to listen with headphones, will it be too noisy and not worth it?  Most headphone listeners use digital playback which makes sense.  Does anyone have any good experience with listening to good vinyl playback via headphones that is quiet?
tyan42

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tooblue
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@tyan42, don't get me started. Like everything else audio, do your DD and follow the sound. enjoy the music
tooblue
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With your budget at $2,000.00 you could get the Yamamoto HA-2 headphone amp direct from Yamamoto and a pair of Audeze LCD2F headphones and live happily ever after, if you buy the headphones on the used market you will have enough left over for a set of the Moon Audio Silver Dragon cables and still wind up under budget. Enjoy the music
tooblue
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I am in the process of selling off my main/big system as we speak and am concentrating on my phono based headphone system as my only source of receiving my tunes. This system is tube based and I am using a couple of carts that dip down to .24mv output which puts more of a strain on tube based phono stages, am getting great results with two of the three tube phonos with one being all tube and one tube with a built in SUT. With your Pass being solid state I don't see any issues for you and you should be able to listen without any annoying noise generated from your phono. Enjoy the music
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