Sub connection to CARY SLP-05 preamp

Marty, the irrational suspicion of cheap components which a share with many an audiophile, no doubt greatly contributes to the survival of the high end audio industry. Nonetheless I have been very happy with my NHT x2. The reason I bought mine is it was the only Xover I could find that allowed me to integrate discrete left and right channels with the LFE channel for multi channel applications, which is precisely what I am doing. Marchand could custom build me one, but based on your experience I am glad I stayed away from it.

My SLP-05 can output from RCA and XLR simultaneously. Simply run XLR to amp and RCA to sub. Problem solved.

If you want a fancier setup, check out my system.

Amfibius,

I am glad a Cary SLP-05 user shown up, driving the Sub with RCA means the SLP05 has to drive both the XLR and RCA simultaneously, will it cause uneven load on the output transformer and all the impedance issue as others suspecting above? Some advise to use Y-adapter for XLR, what do you think?

Richard

Richard, as I indicated above my assumption has been that there is no output transformer in the SLP-05, that it is capacitively coupled instead (as is the case with most tube preamps). You might want to ask Cary to confirm that, and also to confirm that the rca and xlr outputs are independently buffered.

As far as the impedance issue is concerned, the only way to answer that with certainty is to determine what the input impedance of the particular sub is. That figure appears to be unavailable on the web, so an email to Velodyne would seem to be in order, if you want to pursue the line-level approach rather than the speaker-level approach.

Regards,
-- Al

I just sent to Cary and Vel, thanks Al, will post it when I got answers.