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November 15, 2008 - 8:17am
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balanced inputs, silly newbie question
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Well, with a switchbox of the kind you require, you would also need a volume control as your two balanced sources are unlikely to have the same maximum output levels. And then you are looking at a serious product, like, for example, the Sonic Euphoria -- www.stereophile.com/solidpreamps/106sonic -- or the Placette -- www.stereophile.com/solidpreamps/604placette .
And if you are going to that length, you might as well as add an active gain stage to buffer the source components from the power amplifier input loading, in which case you now have a conventional preamplifier.
John Atkinson
Editor, Stereophile
There goes the fortune!
There is a company called "Black Box" That can make up passive switch boxes. I once had them make me up several switches to let me program and control 2 industrial robots from one keyboard monitor mouse.