Many thanks for all of your great responses. Since I haven't recorded any cassettes in years, the tape loop option definitely seems the way to go. The head amp I'm thinking about has both in and out jacks, so I can just set it up in the chain. JimL
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