Aelius
Head-Fier
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My sound card (Creative Sound Blaster Z) has a headphones jack and an optical-out port. I use the optical-out port to go to my external DAC/amp, to which I plug in my HD600 headphones.
But sometimes I want to watch movies and TV on my computer with someone else simultaneously. So I tried plugging in some other headphones into the sound card's headphone jack. This way, I'll have two headphones connected at once. To my surprise, the computer's audio does indeed come out of both headphones.
How does this work? Is there any downside to this? For example, my HD600 headphones are high-impedance, unlike the cheapo ones I plugged into the headphones jack. How is it outputting an apparently clean signal to both headphones despite vastly different impedance?
I mean, I'm glad this seems to work, I just... feel like it's too good to be true.
But sometimes I want to watch movies and TV on my computer with someone else simultaneously. So I tried plugging in some other headphones into the sound card's headphone jack. This way, I'll have two headphones connected at once. To my surprise, the computer's audio does indeed come out of both headphones.
How does this work? Is there any downside to this? For example, my HD600 headphones are high-impedance, unlike the cheapo ones I plugged into the headphones jack. How is it outputting an apparently clean signal to both headphones despite vastly different impedance?
I mean, I'm glad this seems to work, I just... feel like it's too good to be true.
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