Tube preamp with Bel Canto S300??

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Posted on November 5, 2009 at 07:29:25

rebbi
Audiophile

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Location: Austin, TX
Joined: September 4, 2008

Hi,

I got a great price on a Bel Canto S300 power amp on Audiogon. It'll be my first foray into separates, so please be patient with a newbie. ;-)

When I bought the amp, I'd intended to use a tube preamp with it, but now I'm hearing that with the Bel Canto's RCA inputs being rated at "only" 10K ohms, most tube preamps will be an impedance "mismatch" for that power amp.

Is this so? I've combed through these forums and found some instances of people using tube pre's with this amp -- somebody was using a Conrad Johnson PV-something. But another poster write that he'd gotten an email from Bel Canto discouraging him from using a tube pre with this amp. And what's this whole "impedance matching" thing about, anyway?

Thanks for any enlightenment you can offer -- I'm way confused at this point.

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Tube preamp with Bel Canto S300??

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