hi , i have a 2 watt handbuild hi gain TUBE amp . its output is 8 ohm impedence . its a line out for running 8 ohm cabinet .

i was wondering if i could plug headphone into this ???? most heapdhone nowadays are like 32 ohm or over . Any chance of blowing my output transformer ???

i also check ebay and i saw 8 ohm headphone ( vintage from the 70/80s ) but those are STEREO heapdhone . woudl that be a problem . arent guitar amp MONO .



** i heard all type of answer yet : doesnt matter , doesnt matter casue its not enough power to blow the transformer , its very important .etc...

id like really to get a good answer .


thank you guys .

i just dont want to blow out my transformer or my whole amp . thank you .






[Edited on 8/28/2007 by benoit26]

[Edited on 29/8/2007 by moderator]

The only problem with plugging those 8 ohm headphones in would be that the sound will only come out of one earpiece

Not to worry. Almost any headphones with impedence lower than 600-ohms will work. In the case of stero phones, they can be modified for both stereo and monaural, by adding a small SPST (3-pin) switch, as follows:

X---to tip of plug (for mono)
X---from headphone wire which was connected to ring
X---to ring (for stereo)

If you don't want to modify the phones, you can add a stereo headphone jack to the amp, wired to feed the mono amplifier output to both ring and tip terminals (resulting in mono operation when stereo phones are plugged into it).

Paul www.KC5JK.com "New Twang Page"