Hi, I asked what is in essence exactly the same question in another thread http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31096
I spent a pile of time reading through this forum to try and distill this issue down. I captured my research in my response to my own question. There is a lot of information in the postings, its just hard to find it all. I think the issue of balanced input sensitivity needs a wiki page. As I read through the forum I found this issue over and over again. Its sort of a standard newbie question (which includes me) and a bit confusing since the unbalanced side has attenuators built in but the balanced side does not. I have no idea why SD did not included a selectable attenuator on the balanced side. Its 8 resistors needed for -10db attenuation for a amp with 1V input sensitivity. I guess they had to stop somewhere. Clive, you did the posting on the DIY resistor network. Can that be promoted to the wiki with the Rothwell references for the prebuilt passive XLR attenuators? Your answer is exactly right and what I figured out from all my forum spelunking: If you run balanced, and your amp is too sensitive, then you can simply add passive attenuators, prebuilt or DIY. Of course if it says "audiophile" on the attenuators, it will cost 10-100x more than buying them at the local audio supply store (check out the local mic & music amp store or audio rental shop, you can almost certainly find an XLR attentuator there). Thanks for your previous posts on this topic, it helped me out a lot! -- Eric Carroll ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Carroll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9293 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31019 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
