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Can I use my Allnic L3000 preamp with headphone amp?

As the title said.
I used to have a stereo system but now moved to a smaller space which cannot accomodate a big stereo system with speakers. I am thinking of replace the speakers and amplifiers to a headphone and headphone amp. So my question is can I hook up the preamp out to the headphone amp input to listen through my headphone? (My preamp does not have the builtin headphone jack).
Thanks
dangcaonguyen
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soix
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Yes. 
dangcaonguyen OP
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I am afraid the preamp will over drive the headphone amp. Please tell me if I am OK.
soix
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I guess you’d need to check the specs on whatever amp you’re looking at or ask the manufacturer (or post here), but I’d suspect most headphone amps can handle most line-level inputs.  Another option would be to run a headphone amp with a volume control from the tape out from your pre if it has one.  Hope this helps, and best of luck. 
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cal3713
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Just start with the volume all the way down and adjust up. That's 0v, so it can't hurt anything.
dangcaonguyen OP
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Hello all,
Yesterday I tried to plug the Allnic preamp in between the CD player and my Woo WA3. It turned out OK. I was able to listen with the Woo WA3 setting the volume at 9am position and the Allnic L3000 at 10am. I like the sound compared to without the Allnic in between.
I just want to report back and thank you.
Calvin
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cal3713
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Always appreciate the updates. Thanks. Glad it worked out.

You might also try running the Woo fully open (@ 100% volume) and doing all attenuation with the Allnic. The Allnic almost certainly has a better quality VC mechanism, so you might want it doing the heavy lifting.  Could be a little bump in signal quality that way.
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