18-Feb-2015, 23:57
I don't have the same needs as you do but went through the same thing just a few days ago. The only way I could get my headphones (1/4" connectors) to work was to use the pair of digital inputs as pre-outputs. This negated using my digital cable from my source and required a patch cable -2 RCAs male into the 200 and a 1/4" on the other end to attach to my headphones. As a result my source plays through my pair of line inputs and therefore I do not use the 200's onboard DAC because I have lost access to the digital inputs.
I believe you can either use the pair of digital inputs as pre-outs for your headphones OR sub but not both. Maybe there is some other patch cable format that will allow you to attach 4 cables to the 2 pre-outs? No matter your choice you lose the digital inputs but I'm far from an expert here so maybe someone more learned than I can help you out.
Because my rack, which now sits mostly empty because a stack of gear was replaced by the 200, its an easy swap for me. I bought another 4GB SD card, used it for the headphone configuration so all it takes is about 10 seconds of my time to swap the cables in and drop in the SD card to use my headphones. I can still listen to my speakers should I wish to via the remote but if I want to use the coax digital inputs with my speakers I just have take another 10 seconds and swap the cables once again.
I guess if I used an optical digital cable I'd be OK but that type of connection has never been my preferred choice - I like copper based wire for my interconnects.
In my world it would be the perfect set-up if there was just one more coax spdif input.
hopefully the resident experts will chime in and we'll both learn something new
I believe you can either use the pair of digital inputs as pre-outs for your headphones OR sub but not both. Maybe there is some other patch cable format that will allow you to attach 4 cables to the 2 pre-outs? No matter your choice you lose the digital inputs but I'm far from an expert here so maybe someone more learned than I can help you out.
Because my rack, which now sits mostly empty because a stack of gear was replaced by the 200, its an easy swap for me. I bought another 4GB SD card, used it for the headphone configuration so all it takes is about 10 seconds of my time to swap the cables in and drop in the SD card to use my headphones. I can still listen to my speakers should I wish to via the remote but if I want to use the coax digital inputs with my speakers I just have take another 10 seconds and swap the cables once again.
I guess if I used an optical digital cable I'd be OK but that type of connection has never been my preferred choice - I like copper based wire for my interconnects.
In my world it would be the perfect set-up if there was just one more coax spdif input.
hopefully the resident experts will chime in and we'll both learn something new
