Kalman Rubinson
August 19th 03, 03:49 AM
On 18 Aug 2003 19:42:19 -0700, (J. Tyler) wrote:
>Generally speaking, could a subwoofer that's been played for over a
>year using only speaker-level inputs sound temporarily weak and
>spotty, especially in the lowest frequencies, when hooked up to a
>line-level (RCA) input again?
>
>Could the subwoofer amp somehow "take a set" or get "acclimated" to a
>certain type of input through some weird electrical phenomenon? This
>apparently happened to my sub after being lent to a friend for over a
>year. No abuse I know of, just a high level input for all that time.
It may simply be the difference between running the bass through your
amp/receiver on its way to the sub vs. bypassing them.
>It sounds fine now after a few hours playing it with my line-level
>input. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it "recovered" its clean
>bass but I don't think I imagined the difference.
It's called adaptation. Nothing's changed.
Kal
>Generally speaking, could a subwoofer that's been played for over a
>year using only speaker-level inputs sound temporarily weak and
>spotty, especially in the lowest frequencies, when hooked up to a
>line-level (RCA) input again?
>
>Could the subwoofer amp somehow "take a set" or get "acclimated" to a
>certain type of input through some weird electrical phenomenon? This
>apparently happened to my sub after being lent to a friend for over a
>year. No abuse I know of, just a high level input for all that time.
It may simply be the difference between running the bass through your
amp/receiver on its way to the sub vs. bypassing them.
>It sounds fine now after a few hours playing it with my line-level
>input. It's hard to pinpoint exactly when it "recovered" its clean
>bass but I don't think I imagined the difference.
It's called adaptation. Nothing's changed.
Kal