Don't know if this is of use to anyone:
http://www.granada-learning.com/home/catal...t=587&group=344 (http://www.granada-learning.com/home/catalog/jsps/product.jsp?product=587&group=344)
I always had a problem when I needed to change from speakers to headphones. Didn't like to keep pulling my comp around and fiddling with connections, so got this instead.
Bargain at a fiver :o
I'd only leave one item plugged in at a time.... I seem to have the fuzzy memory along the lines of using two items at once IE speakers and headphones affects the impedance and amps/speakers dont like that. PS your sound card is the amp in this case :-)
I use them dont get any probs - got mine from Maplins £3.50
i dont use speekers anymore, only use headset for anythink
I feed my soundcard output into the AUX input of my stereo's amplifier. Then use the headphone socket on that, hence no reaching behind the thing.
I had a microsoft game voice thing, which has a speaker headphone built in. The headphones were rubbish so I bind them and now plug my logitec ones into the game voice pad and all is well.