to dover and almarg
yes you are both quite right... thank you
almarg - my unit is a ANS2 ’H’, thank you so much for your calculations
i had been using the L setting of the ANS2, which in fact provides slightly more gain than the H setting (counter-intuitive, but I am now clear on this) ... my error -- in due course i will try the H setting on the transformer -- the internal impedance of the R100H is somewhere in the middle of the two impedance ranges quoted for the ANS2 settings... I should indeed run the other and see if it cures the ill...
by the stated ANS2 specs the gain is only +/- 2 db in the 2 settings, so not much, on paper at least, but almarg your calcs make it more obvious that into 47k ohms the gain differential is much greater... thus most likely the root cause of my problem - THANK YOU :)
sidebar -- that Mockingbird/Jasmine 2.5 unit is very very nice... punchy, quiet, big stage... plenty of gain of LOMC... incredible value for an active head amp, very glad I tried it after reading A Salvatore’s notes on it...
yes you are both quite right... thank you
almarg - my unit is a ANS2 ’H’, thank you so much for your calculations
i had been using the L setting of the ANS2, which in fact provides slightly more gain than the H setting (counter-intuitive, but I am now clear on this) ... my error -- in due course i will try the H setting on the transformer -- the internal impedance of the R100H is somewhere in the middle of the two impedance ranges quoted for the ANS2 settings... I should indeed run the other and see if it cures the ill...
by the stated ANS2 specs the gain is only +/- 2 db in the 2 settings, so not much, on paper at least, but almarg your calcs make it more obvious that into 47k ohms the gain differential is much greater... thus most likely the root cause of my problem - THANK YOU :)
sidebar -- that Mockingbird/Jasmine 2.5 unit is very very nice... punchy, quiet, big stage... plenty of gain of LOMC... incredible value for an active head amp, very glad I tried it after reading A Salvatore’s notes on it...