In Reply to: RE: Thanks PAR and knewton posted by erik on June 9, 2016 at 08:26:47:
I agree with Ken. The pre-amp's input is being overdriven. The EMC -1 series of CDPs have specified outputs of 2.3V for RCA and 4.6V for XLR. There's the potential problem.
I am assuming that you are using your BAT pre-amp? Maybe BAT could offer advice.
A classic way of dealing with excessive voltage applied to an input is to attenuate the voltage by using, for example, in-line attenuators either as a plug in device or by padding down the output by adding a resistor network to the interconnect cables. My advice is don't as it screws up the sound in my experience especially small dyanamic shifts. It may simply be better to stick with the RCA connection.
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