I am not an engineer so I hesitate to make this statement, but I think that you may have a mismatch between the gain that is being applied by the SB3 and the gain of your amp. Even very high end pre-amps that are very high gain will match poorly with high-gain and high sensitity power amps. That is one of the reasons why so-called "system matching" is very important. There is a discussion on the role of pre-amps on another thread in this forum, but it has been my experience over the last 20 years or so that most systems need a true preamp both because gain needs to be matched and because of impedance matching issues. I kind of doubt the SB3 was primarily designed to be plugged into an amp and used as a combo source/preamp, though of course, I may be wrong. Presumably Sean or someone else at Slim Devices could clarify this issue.
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