[henree]

How do you hook up headphones to the speaker inputs of a receiver?

 

[scompton]

Speaker outputs, and you need to make an adapter.

 

[RexAeterna]

an adapter or just re-cable your headphones as balanced making the tips either banana connectors or spade type or can just have plain speaker wire ends as well.

 

[henree]

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an adapter or just re-cable your headphones as balanced making the tips either banana connectors or spade type or can just have plain speaker wire ends as well.

Will listening this way be an upgrade sonically?
I saw the other day in radioshack, an audio cable that formed into a headphone input. Could this work? Could I just plug the red and yellow audio cable into the back of my Sansui receiver? I hope this won't damage my headphones.

 

[WNBC]

Probably not, I think you are describing a standard mini-stereo to RCA input cable.  This is typically used as aux input not output to headphones.
Is this what you found?
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Audio-Cable-Splitter-1-Mini/dp/B00004Z5CP
 
 
As previously mentioned you need a balanced headphone cable and adapter.
 
Here is an image of an adapter I bought off the forums here:
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/555546/hiflight-xlr-speaker-leads-adapter-banana-plugs-sold
Or you could use something like this
http://www.head-direct.com/product_detail.php?p=104
 
What headphones are you trying to drive?  What sansui model do you have?  Most people use speaker taps for hard to drive headphones with amps/receivers having weak headphone output.  Under such a scenario one would benefit sonically.  Does your equipment fit this criteria?
 
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How do you hook up headphones to the speaker inputs of a receiver?

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Will listening this way be an upgrade sonically?
I saw the other day in radioshack, an audio cable that formed into a headphone input. Could this work? Could I just plug the red and yellow audio cable into the back of my Sansui receiver? I hope this won't damage my headphones.

 

 

[henree]

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Probably not, I think you are describing a standard mini-stereo to RCA input cable.  This is typically used as aux input not output to headphones.
Is this what you found?
http://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Audio-Cable-Splitter-1-Mini/dp/B00004Z5CP
 
 
As previously mentioned you need a balanced headphone cable and adapter.
 
Here is an image of an adapter I bought off the forums here:
http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/555546/hiflight-xlr-speaker-leads-adapter-banana-plugs-sold
Or you could use something like this
http://www.head-direct.com/product_detail.php?p=104
 
What headphones are you trying to drive?  What sansui model do you have?  Most people use speaker taps for hard to drive headphones with amps/receivers having weak headphone output.  Under such a scenario one would benefit sonically.  Does your equipment fit this criteria?
 
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I have a Sansui A-550. There is no info anywhere about this unit. I have Denon D-2000 headphones. Which are easy to drive. I just wanted to see if there would be an improvement if listening through the back of the receiver. Oh and yes that amazon link you copied is what I thought could work.
 
 

 

[Frank I]

you would put too much power int to D2000 and fry the drivers. Use the headphone jack

 

[henree]

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you would put too much power int to D2000 and fry the drivers. Use the headphone jack

Yeah I was afraid of that.

 

[stockpimp007]

Any recommendations for dealers on vintage A/V in Dallas area?

 

[sesshin]

Can finally join the vintage receiver club! Picked up a nice Kenwood KR-9600 today off of Craigslist for a decent price.
 
First impression, amp sounds a lot more full and rich with my LCD-2s compared to the Harman Kardon 3490 and uDAC-2 I was running them on. Tuner is a joy to use. Can get the volume knob up to around '1' before it's too loud. Definitely a monster. 

 
 
Now for my Audio-gd DAC to get here...

 

[blur510]

congrats, that's a beast receiver.
 
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Can finally join the vintage receiver club! Picked up a nice Kenwood KR-9600 today off of Craigslist for a decent price.
 
First impression, amp sounds a lot more full and rich with my LCD-2s compared to the Harman Kardon 3490 and uDAC-2 I was running them on. Tuner is a joy to use. Can get the volume knob up to around '1' before it's too loud. Definitely a monster. 

 
 
Now for my Audio-gd DAC to get here...

 

 

[scottiebabie]

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I have a Sansui A-550. There is no info anywhere about this unit. I have Denon D-2000 headphones. Which are easy to drive. I just wanted to see if there would be an improvement if listening through the back of the receiver. Oh and yes that amazon link you copied is what I thought could work.
 
 

LOL! if it were me, i'd definitely NOT hook up the D2k direct to speaker outs. i think u mite have perhaps O....say a mm or 2 of vol headroom before popping D2k tranducer cones or worst, your ear drums so no matter how inviting the speaker direct hookup mite seem, its NOT a brilliant idea for a super efficient headphone like the denons.
 
OTOH i mite be tempted to try it out on an AKG K702. not sure if it'll be better sounding than the headphone jack but its def an interesting area of exploration

 

[RexAeterna]

Yeah I was afraid of that.

you be fine with any headphone off the speaker outputs. i rewired many headphones and even computer gaming headsets to be used off the speaker outputs and just soldered 16 gauge copper wire as an experiment to see how it works. just with headphone like the D2000 or other that has high sensitivity you would get very little to no headroom at all in volume and find yourself using the ''muting'' button all the time while keeping the volume at zero. i would only suggest speaker outputs for very power hungry and low sensitive headphones. usually any headphone ranging from 32-600ohms should be just more then fine off lot of these receiver's headphone jack with couple of resistors in place.

i just don't suggest it to some cause your taking a big risk and seriously need to be alert when using your amp's speaker output cause one wrong move on the volume knob or tone controls(even loudness button) you'll fry your headphones within seconds or if lucky just kill them enough where you get annoying rattling consentingly rendering them as useless. if you do plan in the future. always remember before headphone use make sure volume is all the way down to zero and to make sure loudness is off and all tone controls are set to defeat/balance. even if the headphone can take lots of power your ears sure won't be able to so volume always at zero on power up. i don't know about you but i'm very sensitive to high SPL and very high frequencies(my hearing is better now then when i was a kid) so i always listen at the bare minimum spl at 1w/1mw with lot of speakers and headphones

 

[popa]

Get a Russound TBL-75 tabletop volume control. This has a headphone jack in front. This unit connects to speaker outs. It does not seem to color the sound to me. Works great for tapping for a headphone jack when do not have one.

 

[moodyrn]

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Can finally join the vintage receiver club! Picked up a nice Kenwood KR-9600 today off of Craigslist for a decent price.
 
First impression, amp sounds a lot more full and rich with my LCD-2s compared to the Harman Kardon 3490 and uDAC-2 I was running them on. Tuner is a joy to use. Can get the volume knob up to around '1' before it's too loud. Definitely a monster. 

 
 
Now for my Audio-gd DAC to get here...

I should have mine up and running by the end of the week. I really can't wait. It's going to be a cage match between it, and my sx1010. I have a feeling my sx1010 may be more neutral sounding and the the kr-9600 may be more fun and musical sounding. But only time will tell.