Tube 15 and headphones.

[guesstimator]

Hi all

Is there anyway to connect headphone to the amp. I was thinking about using the speaker out jack and adding some resistors to increase the load seen by the amp to 8ohm but could get messy, as my soldering is not the best.
Any plug&play system that could be used?

Cheers

[advb]

Although I'm sure there is a DIY option, a cheap amp attenuator with a line out, like the Harley Benton PA-100 is probably a safer bet. That should work with headphones - but don't take my word for it as I haven't tried one!

Of course, for the same sort of price, you could get a headphone amp, like the Harley Benton DNAfx GiT Mobile II.

[ttmax]

Dec 1, 2023 22:57:44 GMT guesstimator said:

Hi all

Is there anyway to connect headphone to the amp. K was thinking about using the speaker out jack and adding some resistors to increase the load seen by the amp to 8ohm but could get messy, as my soldering is not the best.
Any plug&play system that could be used?

Cheers

You can use a guitar effect like mooer pe 100 (send/return tube 15) and have also a headphone mini jack output

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As you may know, and apologies if you already do, the speaker in a guitar amp is specifically designed to NOT be hifi but to ameliorate unpleasant frequencies and enhance others. Each is also voiced to provide chosen characteristics and responses. Headphones, on the other hand, are either designed to have an incredibly authentic reproduction of sound across the audible spectrum or else boosted themselves in certain frequencies to excite the listener's experience of recorded material.

As a result, hearing a guitar directly through headphones or a hifi without the decades long experience of speaker designers' input into improving the rather nasty sound that comes out of coil pickups, may very well be a hugely disappointing experience for you unless you pass the signal through speaker cab simulation first. The WHOLE unit is an instrument in itself.

[ttmax]

Of course, but i suppose that the main purpose of using headphones instead of a speaker is to not disturb those around you. For this reason I believe that the use of a multi-effect inserted between send and return should minimize the problems you rightly mentioned and have a double use: standalone and silence the amplifier speaker (at least I think so), after all the idea of inserting a resistor at the ends of the speaker (again in my humble opinion) would not only alter its impedance, but not would muting the loudspeakers.

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