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Default curious symptom old Fisher stereo amp, inputs strange

On Friday, January 11, 2019 at 9:26:30 AM UTC-5, Tim R wrote:
MIDI in and out confuses me though.

I've never been able to get it to work except by trying it both ways.

Weird thing on this Fisher amp. Putting in headphones (and it's a 1/4 inch jack) disconnects speakers automatically. There's no way to have both room sound and headphone sound. Still it's nice to have this working again.


This is a very common setup. I have received units with no sound that turned out to be a failure of the headphone jack. Without the headphones, the jack shorts the signal line to allow it to continue to the amp. If the jack does not short, then no sound. Rare, but I have seen it a number of times over the years.