Thanks to all for the help. Will try a resistor in the headphone plug. Kind of surprised that this seems to be sop with the Omni V. Called Ten Tec but never got a definite answer, probably since the Omni V is old hat by now. Only suggestion was to check the impedance of the headphones. No big deal though, still impressed by this Omni V. tnx agn Jim/k2hn