In-line attenuation

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I'm driving KEF Reference 107/2 mains (90 dB sensitivity) with Proceed HPA amps (500 watts/channel into 4 Ωs). The volume settings needed for my Parasound JC-2 and Oppo BDP-105 are rather low. I wonder if I should be using in-line attenuation, and if so, does it matter whether the attenuators are at the preamp output or amp input. The surrounds are KEF 102s, and they may need to be padded as well.

Stereo from the Oppo goes through the JC-2 bypass; surround goes directly to amps. The other sources are an Ayre C-5xeMP and a JC-3 phono stage. Audio quality seems superb even at the low volume settings.

db

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Topic - In-line attenuation - dbphd 19:02:38 08/18/14 (5)

RE: In-line attenuation - Bill Way 10:40:04 08/19/14 (0)

RE: In-line attenuation - BCR 09:14:52 08/19/14 (0)

RE: In-line attenuation - Larry I 05:57:32 08/19/14 (1)

RE: In-line attenuation - dbphd 16:10:52 08/19/14 (0)

RE: In-line attenuation - PAR 05:46:11 08/19/14 (0)

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