Emotiva BasX, slight noise question

Any owners of the Emotiva BasX who have added the jumpers to bring the headphone portion of the amp into beast mode have noise floor issues? I find that there is a faint noise that can be heard when NO source material is playing. I have played around a bit with wires, outlets, sources blah blah. I’m just curious to know at this point if others have noise too or just my particular unit. I am tired of hunting the source down and will happily give up if it is standard of the piece itself.

It is normal, as you have substantially increased the output of the amp. This might not be noticeable with less sensitive headphones, but with most headphones you might notice the hiss. You have a bunch of power intended for a speaker running to a headphone amp, the hiss is kinda unavoidable.

I wish I had asked months ago, thank you, that satisfies my urge to fiddle with it and I can stop now.

I understand, once I notice something off, it drives me nuts :rofl:

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