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Paradigm studio 100 v2. amp. Headphones concerns

Hi,
I am new to Audiogon, and any help in getting this young music lover would be very apprecited.
I am looking for an amp to power the paradigms for under 1k used. I will be doing a lot of listening on headphones. I currently have a Grado headphone amp, but I would like to get additional juice by connecting this to another power amp. (I use this set-up to crank the heaphones loud enough to play drums along to music- with earplugs of course.) I currently have a cheap amp and I run a cable out of that amps headphone jack into the grado. I them run my headphones directly out of the Grado.
I am hoping to find an amp that sounds good with the Paradigms and can serve this function. Does the amp need to have a headphone out, and if so, what is a recommended choice? With a headphone out on a good amp, would it even make since to continue to use the Grado? Is their any threat of blowing out the Grado by feeding it a loud signal? Should I run the Grado into other amp or vice versa. Should I only consider integrated amps or would separates make since, even along with the Grado?
I know that my questions are probably very ignorant, but any help would be hugely appreciate. Thank you in advance.
Dylan
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arni
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Creek Classic (2x90) or Portal Panache (2x100) are two integrated amps that should have enough power and punch to drive your Paradigms. They have received excellent reviews, and both have good headphone sections, maybe the Portal in particular. I have no experience with neiter (I have heard the Creek in demo and was impressed), but you might want to take a closer look. Both headphone sections would put out more power than the Grado RA-1, which is designed to drive the "easy to drive" grado phones.
Good luck
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