[walkman666]

Hi, pardon the question that has been addressed here, but after doing a search and reading threads going back up to 2 years, I felt that I wanted to get a current opinion and one that took into consideration my specific home listening habits and components.

I am acquiring my first headphone amplifier to use with my Myryad MI-120 integrated amplifier and matching Myryad MC-100 compact disc player. I use the integrated amp only for playing CDs (no tapes, rarely listen to the radio). Based on what I have read, I could connect my new Pimeta to this combo in one of two ways:

1. through a tape loop (tape out) on the integrated amp.
2. direct through the compact disc player (which would require me to buy a splitter).

If you were me, which method would you choose to connect the HP amp, the tape out on the integrated amp or buying a splitter (say the vampire splitter sold by headroom) and connecting directly to the compact disc player?

Follow-up dumb question: If it choose method #1, when I put a CD into the compact disc player, I still have to select "CD" as the source, right? And when I do select "CD" as the source, the integrated amp still "talks to" the HP amp even though "tape 1" or "tape 2" (depending the tape loop to which I connect the Pimeta) is not selected?

Sorry for the potentially repeat "intro to headphone amps" questions...

thx, walkman666

 

[Mr.PD]

Well, after reading through this thread I would probably use the tape out.
As for which way you have to set the input, I don't know. Those tape out things always confuse me.

As you have probably noticed, the camp seems fairly evenly divided between tape out and splitters.

I wish I could be of more help. My CD player has two sets of outputs, so I never ran into this problem.

Edit; you may want to keep an eye on this thread, that guy is asking the same question.

 

[walkman666]

Thank you for the links Mr. PD. Looks like this is an age-old question, and has different answers for different components. I guess I'll try the tape out first, and maybe pick up a pair of rca splitters from radio shack and compare splitting my CD player's out to the amp.

thx, - walkman

 

[daycart1]

In the other thread, I said I liked using tape outs. If you do get a splitter, the advantage would be that you were bypassing your integrated amp, so it wouldn't matter which input you had set on it....in fact, you could turn it off!

 

[nanahachi]

I've asked the same question, and gotten little in the way of responses. Since the jury is out on this one, I'd say just try it both ways. Personally, I will probably stick with my Vampire splitters (1 end to integrated, 1 end to headamp)/

 

[walkman666]

Thanks nanahachi and daycart1. I think I will try it both ways, tape loop from the integrated amp and splitters from the cd player. I have seen an almost equal number of suggestions for both. thx again.

- walkman