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December 5th 03, 10:02 PM

(Philip Levine) wrote in
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Just bought a Realistic DX 302. I went to Radio Shack for some
headphones and all they had were stereo phones with a higher impedance
than what the radio calls for. Two questions: is this radio supposed
to operate only with monaural phones? I plugged the stereo phones in
and nothing happened. the speaker was not even disabled. could that be
because of the wrong phones or is is a problem with the receiver??

A receiver this old would have a mono phone jack. Still, the speaker should
have been disabled, and the stereo phones should have worked on one side.

Check to see if the jack has been disconnected or bypassed somehow.

Stereo phones should be 8 ohms nominal. How could the DX302 call for less,
unless it calls for 4 ohms? That would make very little difference.