Hi all, new to Diy Audio. Been into car audio for 15 years but this is a whole new ball game. Anyway, I have a question regarding my amp. Mac Ma 5100. Running an active sub: I'm not sure which Rca outs to use for my Velodyne active Sub. On 1 of the output jacks, it says tape? Want to make sure I do this correctly & not damage this nice piece.
There is no pre-out on the MA5100
http://www.berners.ch/McIntosh/Downloads/MA5100_own.pdf
If your sub does not have speaker level inputs you will have to build a voltage divider to feed the speaker levels into the Velodyne. I suggest trying a 1K and 100R resistor, about 20dB of loss.
http://www.berners.ch/McIntosh/Downloads/MA5100_own.pdf
If your sub does not have speaker level inputs you will have to build a voltage divider to feed the speaker levels into the Velodyne. I suggest trying a 1K and 100R resistor, about 20dB of loss.
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The mono speaker output from the MA5100 has an output impedance of 5000 ohms, you may run it into the preamp input of the Velodyne.
Can you tell if I can run 2 of these amps together to drive more speakers with only 1 source like a CD player?
Probably.
I would come out of the tape out of the first unit (that has the sources connected to it), into the tape in of the second unit.
I would come out of the tape out of the first unit (that has the sources connected to it), into the tape in of the second unit.
What about sharing 1 source to two amps? That would be more logical, wouldn't it? I wonder if the signal can be split using a splitter?
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