by sKiZo Sun Jul 21, 2013 7:54 pm
Does it work for ya?
[Check]
It's good then!!
I'm told I'm crazy to be using the .75ma setting on my McIntosh MC2205 when driving it with a Sansui quad. "Normal" people use the 2.5ma input. But ... although I do get a more civilized ratio of volume to control settings, I also lose a lot of crispness and detail.
If you think there's an issue and would like to experiment, you can always get a good 50k pot and put that inline with a chopped RCA cable to adjust the line level input to the amp. If that makes a difference, then you can think about do an output mod on the pre ... probably just a simple resistor swap.
I ran into a situation on my Oppo SACD ... wanted to drive a center channel speaker and had an old Carver cube ... VERY LOUD and that can be dangerous at a couple hundred watts. Did the split cable thing and just tapped a hole in an old lunch size applesauce cup for a "custom case". Works great, and been like that for years ... keep thinking I should improve on the case, but ... why fix what ain't broke? It DOES have a really nice knob.
(and ya ... they ARE all right about the crazy part)