Headphone amp for the DL 1608

[RoadRanger]

One of these days I'll wire up some 220 ohm resistors in series with the outputs and see if they can still drive the buds loud enough. That would be safe and only a small PITA .

[WK154]

Greg our self-proclaimed Mackie field tester say's otherwise, what does Mackie Engineering or the rest of us know. 

[Jerrylee]

Wk I have plugged headphones in the auxs and used it perfectly many times. How's that multitrack recording coming for you?

Again I'll say it... It works. That's all I need to know. That's enough proof for me that it works...because it does. I'm not just spouting out technical information on why I think it should work. I just simply plugged in headphones with the adapter and, damn, it worked!

[robbocurry]

Might be fine 999 times but on the 1000th it might "crap out" the desk.
I'm careful with all my gear, I'd rather be like that than face the embarrassment of something critical failing mid show.
Headphone amps aren't that expensive or space consuming either, why give yourself the worry?
Better safe than sorry IMHO.

[Jerrylee]

Even if one only made $150 a gig that's almost $150,000 before the dl "craps out". I would be ok with that. 

[sam.spoons]

Until you apply 'sods law' which states "when there is a 1,000,000:1 chance of an item failing it will do so the first time it is used for something important" 

[robbocurry]

Even if one only made $150 a gig that's almost $150,000 before the dl "craps out". I would be ok with that. 

I see your point JL but I'd rather err on the side of caution
I've had a few mishaps over the years (mostly power outages) - when the rig goes off the seconds seem like minutes to me - I really hate it