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RE: Passives

" Sounds like the 2V output is deceptive. The average is obviously much lower."

Exactly. But you should setup you gain structure so that the 2v peak will never place more than 1v at the input of your power amp.

That way your power amp is never over driven but instead only driven to max power at the peak of the music and never higher.

Most systems have too much gain and, if the operator is not careful, can be easily over driven.

Sometimes I think that what people don't like about passive preamps is they lose the ability to over drive their systems.

They confuse over drive distortion with dynamics. Upper order harmonic distortion can sound "exciting".



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