preamp hookup question

[stevareno]

Hello everyone.....if you were to take a vintage preamp......send rca connectors to one amp via the preamp's standard output......and a second rca connection to a second amp via the TAPE OUT on the preamp...can you run both amps at the same time...in other words....will the tape out send a signal all of the time......thus avoiding the need for "Y'ING" rca's from the standard output to the two amps?

Did that make any sense to anyone?? Thanks for any replys.

[02audionoob]

I thought the tape output was looking for a much different impedance than the main.

[stevareno]

I don't know...thats why I came here.....to listen to the experts tell me if I am all messed up on this idea!! I thought I read somewhere that a tape output was a very clean continuous signal...since it's main purpose was for recording.......

[02audionoob]

How would you control the volume of the amp that's on the Tape Out? Seems like you'd need an external attenuator.

[stevareno]

didnt think of that...good point.....