[zincman]

OK call me a dumbo but who sells or makes an adapter to hook up your cans to the amplifier speaker terminals. I have a 1.5 watt Decware that I want to hook up to.
Thanks
Tim

 

[lord_tris]

I would doubt that such a thing is made for regular headphones unless you are talking about the k1000's, i would guess that even if you did this your headphones would die in flaming death as most headphones are rated in milliwatts... i could be wrong here but if i were you just buy an actual headphone amp or just use the headphone out on the amp if it has one, if not just get some speakers and enjoy the amp that way. but again i may be wrong. I am sure someone else will chime in later and say something along the same lines or completely contradict me

 

[Arainach]

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Originally Posted by zincman /img/forum/go_quote.gif OK call me a dumbo but who sells or makes an adapter to hook up your cans to the amplifier speaker terminals. I have a 1.5 watt Decware that I want to hook up to. Thanks Tim

Speakers and Headphones are driven differently; no such adapter is possible.

 

[zincman]

I have contacted Decware for help. I ran into a guy from another forum that has my same amp with cans hooked up via speaker terminals. Decware told him the correct resistor to use to match the cans and amp. I will post info when I get it. I have HD580.
Tim

 

[Uncle Erik]

Most receivers run their headphone sections directly off the amp. They add resistors, but it's workable.

The 1.5W rating indicates peak power. It isn't 1.5W continuous. I think the biggest problem would be matching impedance, since speakers are generally 8 ohms, but that's nothing difficult.

 

[Fitz]

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Originally Posted by Arainach /img/forum/go_quote.gif Speakers and Headphones are driven differently; no such adapter is possible.

Say what?

 

[Duggeh]

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Originally Posted by Arainach /img/forum/go_quote.gif Speakers and Headphones are driven differently; no such adapter is possible.

Absolute and complete tosh. Piffle and nonsense of the highest order. A complete and undiluted falsehood in every single respect. Fundamentally untrue. Incorrect at the basis and in the elaboration. Wrong my good man and consider this your educational admonishment.


Such adapters are possible and indeed there are many available, QED cables make one or at least used to. They were slightly more common in days of yore when a lot of amps did not have headphone jacks. Higher impedance "normal" headphones can in fact be driven right from the speaker terminals if you are careful with the volume dial. My father used to do it with his old DT880 out of a 140 watt Quad 405-2.

Aside from oddities like the Ergo AMT and of course the K1000 though, and those crazy Stax electrostatic adapters as well, you'll really want one of those little adapters.

I've just had a look on ebay where I know i've seen them for sale before but for the life of me I cant find one at the minute.

 

[zincman]

Steve @ Decware said I should just run them straight in to start and add resistors to suit my volume needs. I am going to wire up an adapter this week and see how they do.
Tim

 

[bhd812]

Grommes hi-fi makes a adapter for $100.00 you can buy. or you can make your own using resistors and jacks

 

[D_Tinnitus]

Build your own! A small plastic box, a couple resistors, input terminals and a headphone jack. Definitely doable for less than $10 (if you already own a soldering iron).

Here's a page to get you started...

---> Headphone Adaptor for Power Amplifiers

Lots more schematics floating around the net as well, all pretty much similar. Super easy to build.

 

[gritzcolin]

Pioneer used to make something like this I remember seeing a pic of it on these forums. From the looks it was made in the 70's.

 

[krmathis]

The llusion ESC-1001 are perfect for this task.
It allows you to hook up Stax Pro bias headphones to any speaker amplifier.

 

[Kees]

Adapter to hook up headphones to speaker terminals.

 

[krmathis]

There are always the vintage Stax SRD-7's as well...