2-Channel Home Audio
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I tried, but I seemed to get weird results on my DE-5000. Seems like the numbers would fluctuate each time I measured. More importantly, It seems that the measurement between taps 0 and 3 would not always equal 1/4 the value between taps 0 and 5. The issue, however, is that the output voltage of an autoformer is based on the winding ratio, not the inductance ratio. Inductance is based on several variables, and windings is only one of them. LTSpice let's you specify the inductance and DCR only. All other variables being equal, a 40 mH inductor should have twice the windings as a 10 mH inductor. My T2A LTSpice autoformer equals twenty 10 mH inductors in series and coupled. Tap 4 equals 14 of the inductors. Tap 3 equals 10 of the inductors. Tap 2 equals 7 of the inductors. Taps 1 equals 5 of the inductors. It comes out pretty close. My reasoning was that each of the 10 mH inductors would have the same number of windings. I can try to post my Type AA if you would like. Mike -
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Heresy IV by a lot, over Heresy 3, Cornwall IV is a major step up, and it is a major step up over CW3 -
Well since no one replied and one day maybe someone inexperienced like myself with such a device comes along, I figured it out: So if you have a multizone system with it's own preamps(the McIntosh CR16 has 4 separate pre amps)- you just connect your speakers to your power amp and then power amp to UNBAL L/R OUT on preamp. (I haven't figure out what kind of old balanced cable input that is and why only 1, but my McIntosh power amp doesn't have balanced so I used RCA unbalanced). Connect your devices to the AUDIO INPUTS ie: PC DAC to any of the AUDIO INPUTS you see EXCEPT AUX if you're going to combine 2ch with an AVR. If you want to use the device as a 2ch preamp with "Home Theater Passthrough" or "Home Theater Bypass" like many stereo integrated devices are now coming with to combine best of both worlds-simply take your rca or coaxial cable from ZONE AUX IN L/R into your Audio Video Receivers PRE OUTS for L/R. Then, if your AVR has a data input like other McIntosh, connect 3.5mm from ZONE AUX IN data to AVR data, but if it doesn't have data input, simply stick one end of your 3.5mm jack only half way or to the "ring" part of the tip which creates a tip to ring short and now you can use the AUX input on the front panel with your AVR-which is why you needed the AUDIO AUX INPUT free to be used. That's it. Now you've got your 2ch separate from your surround sound. Photo example of tip to ring-stick the end into the DATA jack to the "ring" and leave the "Sleeve" sticking out. Have yet to figure out if I can use my Center channel in ZONE 2 yet, but I don't see why not since you can play all 4 separate pre amps on same input. I'll need to buy an rca mono adapter first then out to center pre out. -
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