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DAC Headphone AMP Studio Monitors Setup Help

egothrasher

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I am trying to setup a dac, headphone amp and studio monitors, and would like some help with the setup.

I believe it should go

Laptop/PC > DAC > Splits One balanced set goes to speakers, Other balanced set goes to headphone amp.
With that setup though, if I plug in the headphones, does that cut off the speakers or will they still be playing.

The other setup would be

Laptop>DAC>Headphone AMP>Speakers
Issue with that though is I am not seeing many if any headphone amps that have balanced outputs, mostly rca outputs.

All help again appreciated.
 

JohnYang1997

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I am trying to setup a dac, headphone amp and studio monitors, and would like some help with the setup.

I believe it should go

Laptop/PC > DAC > Splits One balanced set goes to speakers, Other balanced set goes to headphone amp.
With that setup though, if I plug in the headphones, does that cut off the speakers or will they still be playing.

The other setup would be

Laptop>DAC>Headphone AMP>Speakers
Issue with that though is I am not seeing many if any headphone amps that have balanced outputs, mostly rca outputs.

All help again appreciated.
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