[justinhill]

I'm now almost definitely going to buy a C|24 and I'm looking at patchbay design and stuff I might not need to have on the desktop any more.

So my question for C|24 users is this: can the built-in headphone output go seriously loud with 80 ohm headphones, and do so without being noisy?

A lot of my work is audiobooks, which are always tracked on headphones and at what would be ear-bleedingly high levels if you were tracking anything else (because you're punching in on the ends of breaths and so forth). At the moment I'm plugged into my Behringer 8 channel rack mount headphone amp, and it goes stupidly loud without any noticeable noise. If I have the C|24 in front of me, can I use that instead?

Also, where exactly is the headphone socket? I can't find a picture of it. If I want to 'sink' the C|24 slightly into the desk surface and have keyboard and trackpad in front of it, can I still get at the socket?