Hooking up an H-series to headphones

[bnelson218]

Hi guys,
This topic has likely been covered numerous times although my searches haven't revealed anything useful. I have an H300 series console (with the rhythm unit), that the wife has finally agreed to let me put in the living room. This has been an ongoing battle too, and I only won out on the condition that I be able to plug in headphones and mute the speakers. I'm not that bad of a player either. Go figure. Anyway, if anyone out there has done this I'd sure appreciate the help. Thanks!

[Jaim]

Its been years since I had looked at a H100 series so take this with a grain of salt.
If you go the traditional speaker route you would have to worry about amp loads and figure out a way to add the bass back in.

The easiest thing to do is to use the Echo only to silence the main speakers. Build a line out using the external speaker connector. Take a 7 pin male and drill out the 2 pins used as keys. Left and right channels are on pins 1 & 7 and pin 4 is ground. Feed into a mixer with a headphone jack. Warning - pins 3 & 5 are AC. Pins 2 & 6 are the keys. I may have a 7 pin laying around.

Jim

[bnelson218]

Thanks, Jim. I think I might go that route, especially since I'd like to also add a music channel, either off my I-pad or maybe a CD player, maybe both, for the sake of practicing. And I'll probably change out that 7 pin altogether. Thanks for the help!

[tucsondave]

There's a schematic for it in the service manual.

[bnelson218]

Yup, just found it and it even includes the load resistors.