Fryette Power Station

Jun 8, 2016 at 9:25 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 3

jman1

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Hey -
 
This may be a horrible question, but I recently just bought a Fryette Power Station to use with a profiling amplifier for my guitar.  Do you think it would be possible to use it with headphones too?  Or would it damage them?  I currently own Sennheiser 600HDs
 
 
 
http://www.fryette.com/power-station-integrated-reactance-amplifier/
 
Jun 8, 2016 at 12:15 PM Post #2 of 3
First of all, the amp is mono.
 
It appears to be an output transformer coupled amp, meaning the load impedance must match the selected output impedance or you risk damaging the amp. The highest selectable output impedance is 16 Ohms which is still quite low for a headphone. If you parallel the left and right headphone channels of a 32 Ohm headphone that might work. Your HD600 is 300 Ohms though.
 
It is ludicrously overpowered for a pair of headphones. It can supply up to 50W, that's 1000 times more than your headphones need. It could easily damage them if you're not careful.
 
Guitar amps are not hi-fi. Even if you could avoid the above issues, your headphone would sound better plugged straight into a phone or whatever you've been using.
 

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