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In Reply to: RE: Pre-Amp - rookie question posted by pistonengine08 on August 5, 2016 at 20:09:57:
In nearly any separates with a preamp and an amp.. THE CD player signal at 2 volts is far higher than most amps could possibly use.
IMO ALL preamps playing music from a standard CD player are attenuating the signal.
Well, maybe not if you like playing at 110dB...
Try connecting your CD player direct to your amp.. But remember you ARE likely to blow up you speakers or amp doing it.. from too much signal.
Wayyy back before CD.. ALL signal devices were standard at 0.5 volts..
THen CD came along and for some crazy stupid reason raised CD output signal to 2 volts..
NO preamp or amp makers ever actually adjusted for this.
(I have no idea why not) But it is true. ALL the companies I know of, preamps and amp combos all have way more amplification than they need. And all attenuate the signal from digital sources to amp.
SOME old source devices having the earlier 0.5 volt standard will not.
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Follow Ups
- ALL CD player outputs are WAY way over the level you could listen to. - Smelly_Socks 22:48:36 08/05/16 (3)
- RE: ALL CD player outputs are WAY way over the level you could listen to. - pistonengine08 05:33:07 08/06/16 (2)
- RE: ALL CD player outputs are WAY way over the level you could listen to. - Tre' 21:49:54 08/06/16 (1)
- Excellent suggestion! nt - Smelly_Socks 08:29:12 08/07/16 (0)
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