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Headphone amp connect to tape out of integreated?

lopchu

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Hi all and sorry, if this has been asked before here:

I have an integrated stereo amp (NAD 3020) and currently use headphone out of it. But an Atom is on it's way and I wondered how to best connect it.

"Use the tape out of the integrated."

This seems to me to be the standard answer. And it would be super convenient because I wouldn't have to switch cables and could select mt record player as the source.

Just to be on the safe side: anything wrong with this approach? If so, any better alternatives?

Alternatives I can think of:
Technically, I guess, it would also be possible to connect the Atom via RCA out to an input of the integrated but then there would be a double volume control and no possibility of adding the turntable to the party without buying a phono pre. The third solution would be to directly connect the Topping D10 to the Atom. But this would mean switching cables if I want to use the speakers and hence the integrated amp. And again no record player connected to the Atom.
 

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Just to be on the safe side: anything wrong with this approach? If so, any better alternatives?
That is a good approach. The line level output should be a good match. No alternative that I can think of.
 
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