On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:39:52 -0400, "Chris Mullins"
wrote:

i think he meant that with the higher preamp voltage it'll be clipping
earlier with the gains, since most people don't know how to set their gains
its better to have lower preamps. There's been at least half a dozen people
i've heard of blowing their subs cause it wouldn't hold the power from their
amps they think the gain is a power setting so they want all the power they
can get


That's true - if you take a properly-adjusted system that uses 2V
preouts from the head unit, and swap in a different head unit with 7V
preouts and don't adjust the gain on the amp(s), you're only going to
be able to use about a quarter of the head unit's volume range before
you start clipping the amp.

That's not an inherent disadvantage of high-voltage preouts, though -
that's user error, plain and simple.
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Scott Gardner

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