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In Reply to: I think Y-splitters would be the only way, unless your amp has a loop-out (nt) posted by Mark Tinordi on March 20, 2007 at 05:34:41:
I've had the same problem for months, initially with the front-L/Rs and now with the center. Y-splitters from RadShak worked OK-ly, initially, but I wanted a higher-quality solution. I decided to conscript the Tape Out jack instead of drilling a hole in the chassis of my $7K preamp for another output jack. Snipped a couple, then soldered a couple, leads and I was finished.
Lew Johnson said 'thx for sending the pic'.If your preamp has Tape Out jacks you're not using and don't plan to use, you might consider rewiring them; it's got to sound better than an even-greater number of solder and mechanical connections.
Have you considered the preamp-output v. combined-input impedances?
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I don't want to be held responsible for any destroyed eardrums...I meant that if the power amp has some sort of loop out, you could use that to chain the two together. I've never actually seen a loop out on a power amp, but it seems commonsense enough that you'd think there's got to be one floating around out there.
I have one also which I am using as an active crossover and to lightly eq manually. I haven't tried the auto eq yet. I'm fairly happy with the sonics of the unit. Are you?
How are you using it?
I'm using mostly-4th-order filters, and I use the parametric eq.s in the output channels for both overall 'flavoring' of tonal ballance--more bass and lower-MR and less treble than flat--and to fix peaks and canyons.I initially used the auto-eq. but didn't like the result, so I got my PN generator and Phonic Audio Assistant RTA out and started adjusting. I worked 1st on the bass peaks and canyons, then added treble rolloff, and then slowly tweaked the other irregularites until the system sounds QUITE good to me.
I've not yet used the driver-distance feature nor the antifeedback filters.
I'm sure that all the additional connections, analog op-amps, and digital processors have a negative affect on sound quality, but I'm not a GEA so I can't hear them, while I can definitely hear the benefits of flatter, less-lumpy frequency response and MUCH-higher-quality treble resulting from using high-order filters on the top of the MR and bottom of the treble.
The only way this'll leave my system is when it's replaced with a better one.
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Reason I ask is that I am supposedly a GEA and I absolutely love the piece. Another fellow inmate RP1 says that active crossover plus eq is like the elephant in the room. It is so obviously good that you and/or I (as a GEA) don't want to talk about it. Some of my audiophile friends would never touch the stuff because, to quote from the book of Audiophiles Chapter 1, verse 1, it has to be ridden with digititus. But as you discovered this is simply not the case.This, to my mind is the way of the future. Many of the expensive versions of the dbx are now starting to show up...I forget the names but they are priced above the non-audiophile brands so presumably are acceptable. But my point is if one wants to tweak or likes to tweak try this unit it will give you endless possibilities for sonic excellence.
BTW I use active crossovers in a 2 in 6 out configuration, some are LR12 some are BW24. I use slight eq-ing and some time delay. I have not tried auto eqing or feedback compensation.
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