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In Reply to: RE: One very important thing . . . posted by Frank E on September 30, 2009 at 16:18:48
Frank - As you may know I'm now a reviewer for dagogo. I assumed that the OTO had the capability of being a preamp because it is basically an M1 Phono preamp and a P1SS or P2SE (I forget which) in one case.
I am reviewing a pair of 150 watt hybrid monoblocks (300 watts into 4 ohms) so I remembered (obviously incorrectly) that I could run an RCA from the tape out to each monoblock. I put the needle down and the volume as you can well imagine was extremely loud. So before the song even started up came the arm. Disconnected the settings.
I am also reviewing a preamp dac. I connected the RCA outputs to each monoblock (no phono) and tried again. WAM full volume - fortunately it was a guitar intro and not something with either bass or treble content but it scared the hell out of me.
The AN J's are fortunately quite fine. Definitely be buying some cheap speakers when I first try to run anything. The preamp is mainly sold as a DAC/headphone amp so it's possible I was supposed to flip an internal switch (I had to do that with my old Arcam Integrated to convert it into a preamp) but the instruction manual made no such mention.
I don't know where I was under the impression that an integrated could be converted into a preamp through the tape outs. Frankly, most companies should probably do away with tape in and outputs - the technology has been dead for 15 years - I'd rather see some other connections - like a preamp output or USB.
Cheers,
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