True Headphone AMP?

Thanks Al.

I figured there was some good reasons that such a device does not exist. I thought there might be some issues but do not have the technical knowledge to know what they would be.

Might make an interesting project. But sounds like it would not work for but one combonation of pre and phones.

Sean

I bought a little tubed Bravo V2 headphone amp (cute) recently and drive it from a set of unused single ended outputs on my preamp. It allows the use of the preamp remote volume control, works perfectly, sounds great, looks cool (the amp, not me necessarily). I can see absolutely no reason why you wouldn't want to drive a phone amp from main outs...you can mess with the gain all you want...heaphone up/preamp down, vise versa...I run the V2 at about 50% or so of its gain to allow appropriate preamp adjustment headroom. It has no audible deletirious effects on the preamp's other outputs (balanced outs to the main amp, another single ended pair to an aux amp rarely used for extension/outdoor speakers).

How about a MiniWatt amp with the headphone out adaptor? And then bypass the MiniWatt's volume control, which I have read improves the sound of the MiniWatt

I haven't read all of these, so it might have been mentioned. Go over to HeadFi.org. This is a forum just for headphone enthusiest. You will find solid recommendations in any price range. This is a very knowledgable bunch.
Tim

If you are still interested, here is the link to the ASL headphone junction box
http://www.divertech.com/asluhcsignature.html