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I asked Guy Hummel to put a headphones jack into my new unit. Guy put the jack, the switch that redirect signal to headphone or to the main output. It is so cool to have a headphone option – I have no idea why I did not ask him to do it before. In addition to pure benefits and camphor of using headphones, the headphones are superior tool to trace “quality of sounds” and to monitor certain thing that harder to monitor sending signal to large speakers.

Many people, including Guy Hummel, told me that Placette’s output stage is a very good driver for headphones. I disagree. Placette does produces VERY high quality sound via headphones, in facts sounds quietly at Fist Listing Level is absolutely phenomenal. However, overall I do not like that sound – it is very stiff and very anal retentive. It reminds what the deterrence between the world “meal” and word “eating ceremony”…

I have to admit that I have very weird headphones: the 70OHm ATH-M40FS. They are no way good headphone but they are the headphones that I am very much accustomed and very much like. To me the ATH-M40FS driven from Panasonic SL-CT470 with S-XBS EQ curve is the most musical sound from headphones that I ever experience. I so addicted to that sound that a few year ago I bought 6 now gone SL-CT470 and when my ATH-M40FS get broken (one in 1-2 years) I but right the way another ATH-M40FS. There are much more capable headphones then ATH-M40FS with better extension and certainly there are MUCH better headphones amps then the SL-CT470’s output but M40FS and bass-activated CT470 is what I feel home and I know that it might be not rational but it is what I call “musical.” When Placette drives my headphones the sound are way more sophisticated and more refined, it term of technical listening I found it superb. However, it is hardly appreciateable in human experience term and in musical terms.

Perhaps I need other headphones as so far Macondo sounds way more sophisticated and incontestably better then my headphones. However the headphones do have own place. For instance it is so comfortable to put headphones on and to drive the antenna’s rotor to turn the antenna very precisely to the given station using the minute noises that are very continent to recognize on headphones. I feel that this way give more exact result then monitoring the signal strength or the multipathing. There are few other options where headphones are very handy and I am glad that I have then eventually integrated with me my entire system.

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