[Elecraft] K3 - Splitting main/sub audio to 2 headphones

[Jim Brown]

On 6/1/2014 11:29 AM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> You can't guarantee that with any two random headphones - my shack has
> headphones anywhere from 8 Ohms to 200 Ohms.

I would change that. Simple Ohms Law suggests that's a very bad idea, 
for reasons noted in the next sentence.

> Paralleling headphones
> of with differing impedance and sensitivity will result in one operator
> getting too much or too little audio and may require gain high enough
> to result in excess distortion or dissipation.

That may be true, and is the only negative for paralleling them. But it 
also depends on the voltage sensitivity of the headphones involved.