Please get your information straight

Posted by madisonears (A) on September 30, 2015 at 15:44:35

In Reply to: RE: It is all implementation dependent posted by Victor Khomenko on September 30, 2015 at 11:56:03:

Victor, nice to see you posting here.

First of all, I owned BAT equipment (VK200, VK30, VK60 monoblocks) for many years because I was intensely interested in having properly implemented balanced circuitry throughout my system from source to amp. I admire your capabilities and execution, enough to spend lots of my money in obtaining your products.

Your response to my post about degradation of the signal due to deriving balanced signal from SE source is in conflict with what you posted here. Please clarify.

I maintain that, unless there are extraordinary system requirements, a SE connection throughout will usually sound better than deriving a balanced signal from a SE source. I've heard it myself on some equipment. Perhaps BAT gear is an exception of excellence, but, typically, the only thing to be gained is 6db gain and possibly some modest CMR with long IC's. I agree that a true balanced source will make a balanced system sound better than SE.

I agree that your test is an obvious method to determine whether there is, in this specific case, any sonic degradation. I wouldn't even bother with moving the sub and using crazy long cables which may introduce their own negative effects. Simply turn down the sub volume (not quite at zero) and play the mains with the sub plugged and unplugged. What could be easier and more definitive?

As you wrote, I would expect negative effects only if load impedance gets too small. Probably not an issue with properly designed SS amps.

Peace,
Tom E
berate is 8 and benign is 9

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Topic - Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - jsr 23:20:30 09/28/15 (26)

probably doesn't matter - madisonears 23:53:48 09/29/15 (8)

It is all implementation dependent - Victor Khomenko 07:20:36 09/30/15 (7)

RE: It is all implementation dependent - jsr 11:02:05 09/30/15 (6)

RE: It is all implementation dependent - Victor Khomenko 11:56:03 09/30/15 (5)

Please get your information straight - madisonears 09/30/1515:44:35 09/30/15 (2)

RE: Please get your information straight - Victor Khomenko 18:05:18 09/30/15 (1)

Now I get it - madisonears 20:29:21 09/30/15 (0)

RE: It is all implementation dependent - jsr 12:15:56 09/30/15 (1)

RE: It is all implementation dependent - Victor Khomenko 12:28:48 09/30/15 (0)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - neolith 14:27:11 09/29/15 (1)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - jsr 18:51:12 09/29/15 (0)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - John Elison 03:55:31 09/29/15 (14)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - jsr 09:34:59 09/29/15 (4)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - John Elison 09:45:26 09/29/15 (3)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - One thing I should have mentioned - jsr 11:23:47 09/29/15 (1)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - One thing I should have mentioned - John Elison 12:10:05 09/29/15 (0)

RE: Balanced/Unbalanced Simultaneously - Thanks! (NT) - jsr 09:59:56 09/29/15 (0)

You started correctly... but... - Victor Khomenko 08:03:35 09/29/15 (8)

If the unit is balanced - Ralph 12:37:32 10/6/15 (0)

RE: You started correctly... but... - jsr 09:36:51 09/29/15 (0)

RE: You started correctly... but... - John Elison 08:18:11 09/29/15 (5)

What is the effect of those cables capacitance on a typical preamp output? - Victor Khomenko 09:44:53 09/29/15 (3)

RE: What is the effect of those cables capacitance on a typical preamp output? - John Elison 09:52:45 09/29/15 (2)

OK, so now it "doesn't matter" - Victor Khomenko 10:18:40 09/29/15 (1)

RE: OK, so now it "doesn't matter" - John Elison 10:40:48 09/29/15 (0)

RE: You started correctly... but... - jsr 09:38:22 09/29/15 (0)

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Please get your information straight - madisonears 09/30/1515:44:35 09/30/15 (2)

RE: Please get your information straight - Victor Khomenko 18:05:18 09/30/15 (1)

Now I get it - madisonears 20:29:21 09/30/15 (0)

Please get your information straight

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