Thanks for info, all......

The KRK's do work when assigned to L &L/R output. The onboard speakers also work at the same time. There does not seem to be enough "power" going to the KRK's though......because the onboards are about as loud as the KRK's and just about drown them out at any setting. I've played the KRK's off a Yamaha XS6 Motif (which does not have internal speakers) and they'll go much louder then. (Loud enough to enjoy the music at comfortable level).

I bought a 1/4" stereo jack which splits the headphone output into left and right output. I'll give that a try.

The KN1600 has a bunch of onboard tweeks....reverb, surround, "Illusion", that when set up make the board sound about 100% better than playing "cold" after power-on.

Also I like the really easy "Accomp" part-change.......it will improve many of the onboard styles in a jiffy.

Does this board have "Instant Style Creator"? That was THE favorite thing I like about the AX7 I once had. Sorry I ever got rid of it now.

The AX7 had crap onboard speakers. (As do many of the boards of any brand nowadays). But when bypassed and played into a much better speaker the sound was a 1000% improvement. The KN1600 played through KRK"s is awesome. But the onboard speakers played at the same time is annoying.

I made an entire CD with an AX7. I defy anybody to tell the difference in final quality between it and a professional CD.

I heard that back in the day THE WHO used an AX7 on the road. But they had their "techies" remove the onboard speakers and played it into amps only.


"FloppyDisk.Com" has floppy disks that they still sell....plus floppydisk-drive cleaning kits......and.....they still sell Dell floppy drives. They say that the Dells are a good unit.
Don't know if they could be adapted to Technics boards though. Maybe as an "external" unit?

At a glance they could be a straight remove-and-replace.......