I should certainly think so
Me too, but I need confirmation lol
I sent an email. See what they say 
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If the headphone and 2 channel systems were in the same room there would probably no difficulty. However:
So being in different parts of your house brings limitations from the lengthy interconnects that you would need to make or custom order and install from Lina to at least one of the systems. I would not go there without a lot of consideration regarding the practicality as a run from one room downstairs to another and accounting for any necessary deviation from a straight line which may exceed the maximum advisable length of either RCA or XLR wires.
I am unsure why you find the Lina X desirable over the ordinary Lina. It seems to have nave obvious advantages for the scheme you propose but presumably you may have reasons.
My bad. I explained it wrong.
I want to MOVE the headphone amp and clock Upstairs and integrate into the larger system in such a way that the Lina X can be used discreetly as a headphone rig but then use the DAC/clock ALSO for my speakers when listening to digital that way.
Also, by using the X I am wondering if connectivity makes it easier and less cumbersome to use the gear I have in this way. Hope that makes sense?
My understanding was (from previous posts) that the Lina can sort of do this but levels and such must be watched and set carefully vs my hope with the X being its all meant to do this… have various components plugged into it and use them all discreetly.
Thanks for the clarification. If you do move the headphone and two channel systems then there should be no problem. Headphone amp or 2 channel units can be fed from Lina with either RCA or AES outputs ( which is partly dependent on your home theatre inputs). Lina or Lina X have appropriate analogue outputs and wordclock inputs.
Yes you may need to watch line levels as the overall sensitivities of a home theatre system or headphone amp/cans are likely to be very different in practice even if it looks good on paper.
Yeah, and looking at my preamp it seems it may still be an issue bc my the Lina X still uses the same balanced out and my preamp only has balanced/unbalanced in; no usb etc so it may not work any better than the Lina for my purposes…
Once I use that for the headphone amp the rest is the same challenge.
I am not sure what you mean. Lina has balanced and unbalanced outputs, RCA and XLR. These are analogue. Lina is a digital to analogue converter / streamer after all and so it provides digital in and analogue out.
Without knowing exactly what you use, surely your preamp has RCA inputs? XLR to Lina headphone amp and RCA to preamp?
If you are thinking of some kind of digital input to your preamp that means that you do not want an external DAC as the preamp would need to have its own internal DAC ( that’s what the digital input feeds) and the source would be a transport/streamer/video player of some kind but without conversion to analogue.
Yeah so I was mistaken. I can use my Lina and the new one is just form factor and inputs for cd player etc which I don’t need. Moving my Lina stack to my dedicated room this week