Hi!
I guess that they wanted stuff you'd gig with, not practice with at home.
The SDS-2 has a separate headphones amplifier which is from another planet
or something. With a pair of modern headphones plugged in you can call your
ear doctor on the double 'cause that thing is mental and dangerous.
electronically yours, jesper - tried it once - ∗aouch∗
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----- Original Message -----
From: <michael.buchner@...>
To: <Simmons_Drums@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Simmons Drums] Noise from Headphones
> The headphone amp of the SDS9 is located unfortunately on the
> power-supply-board and not on the main pcb. Rumours say, that they didn't
> want to build a headphone amp into the unit at all because they never had
> headphone amps in their brains: The main pcb's design was finished, but
> marketing factors forced simmons to add the amp, so this was the only way.
> The amp is fed from the mix out by a shielded wire, but the connection
> acts like an antenna for all noise, buzz and hum. But if you run the mix
> out to a mixing console, you can use the console's phoneamp. If you don't
> need the SDS9's mix out, you can plug an external headphone amp there. So:
> Simply ignore SDS9s headphone jack.
> Greetings
> Michael
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