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headphone amp setup question

Here's the situation. My First Sound Presence preamp doesn't have a headphone jack, and the only way to listen is through my cassette deck jack. Am thinking about getting a good headphone amp. My question is this: to connect the amp, do I have to use the tape pre-out jacks, or can I use the unused pair of outputs from the preamp and just set the preamp volume controls low and use the head amp control to adjust the sound level. Thanks. JimL
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hammy
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use the preamp out jacks. You can use either volume control. If your preamp is remote control use the vol on the headphone jack to set the gain permanantly, and use the preamp from then on. Think of the headphone amp as just another amp, and all will become clear.
PS- if you set pre-amp low, the loudest you'll get is low.
hammy
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Call me lazy Jim, but I'd use the pre-amp out just so I could use my remote control. If you listen to classical, as I do , sometimes the orchestra swells to ear crushing levels at a crescendo. Of course, sometimes I listen to Dire Straits and want to be able to crank it up at times. Either way, I hate getting up with headphone cabling attached to me.
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