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HELP: Krell CAST and Balanced Inputs

I have an FPB 200c and had recently went preampless, using a delius DAC to drive the amp directly. But this displaced my analog front and that drives me nuts.

I asked an audiophile firned to make for me a passive attenuator and he made it with a balanced out so as to mate with my amp. However, i also want to use the digital and i don't want removing the ICs.

Is it possible to use the XLR and the CAST inputs at the same time? What i mean is to use the Delius into the XLR and the Passive Attenuator into the CAST (using an XLR-CAST interconnect).

Has anything similar been experienced or done by anyone here?

Thanks friends!
egay
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audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
>>CAST cary signal as current while RCA and XLR cary signal as voltage<<

Could you elaborate on that a bit more please.

Thanks in advance.
haroon
16 posts
 
Just read the page 3 of Krell FPB manual, available online at Krell website.

However, page 1, Krell Current Audio Signal Transmission
(CAST): “A proprietary Krell circuit technology for connecting analog components, in which the audio waveform is transmitted between components in the current rather than voltage domain.”
stevecham
3,340 posts
 
CAST: high impedance output into low impedance input

Balanced/single ended: low impedance output into high impedance input
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egay OP
18 posts
 
thanks again for your comments!

i decided to simply use the balanced inputs as getting krells with cast in this side of the pond is very difficult - people are simply keeping theirs ;-)

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