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Harmon Kardon 3380 v 3490 v 730


the5chord

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19 minutes ago, the5chord said:

Current have a 3380 but I am interested in picking up a 3490 or going vintage with the 730. 
 

What would you folks suggest regarding these options?

What speakers are you planning to power, if you go with the H/K 730 twin-powered receiver?  If you listen to stereo FM radio using a tuner, the 930 has the best tuner of the bunch!...along with 45wpc, instead of 35 wpc the 730 has...but all of the tuners are good in that series!

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1 minute ago, HDBRbuilder said:

What speakers are you planning to power, if you go with the H/K 730 twin-powered receiver?  If you listen to stereo FM radio using a tuner, the 930 has the best tuner of the bunch!...along with 45wpc, instead of 35 wpc the 730 has...but all of the tuners are good in that series!

 

 

I don’t listen to the radio at all. Haven’t for 20 years. Using Heresy ii’s.  I do like subs with the heresies so perhaps going vintage is not a good idea.

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1 minute ago, the5chord said:

 

 

I don’t listen to the radio at all. Haven’t for 20 years. Using Heresy ii’s.  I do like subs with the heresies so perhaps going vintage is not a good idea.

That all depends upon whether the sub is a powered-sub or not.  Most of them nowadays ARE!

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12 minutes ago, the5chord said:


they are powered

Your Heresys will love the 730!...even just the 430!  If your sub inputs are designed to run with the left and right speaker outputs from the receiver, which in turn sends the signals from the sub itself TO THOSE HERESY MAINS, then you are good to go....but if it SOLELY relies on a sub-out signal, the 730 doesn't have that.  Which means that you will need to use the speakers "B" 730 outputs instead, which will drop your output ohms from 8 to 4 since you would have to have both spear A and speaker B running from that receiver..  Make sense?

 

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17 minutes ago, HDBRbuilder said:

Your Heresys will love the 730!...even just the 430!  If your sub inputs are designed to run with the left and right speaker outputs from the receiver, which in turn sends the signals from the sub itself TO THOSE HERESY MAINS, then you are good to go....but if it SOLELY relies on a sub-out signal, the 730 doesn't have that.  Which means that you will need to use the speakers "B" 730 outputs instead, which will drop your output ohms from 8 to 4 since you would have to have both spear A and speaker B running from that receiver..  Make sense?

 

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would it make more sense to run out of the tape monitor outputs?

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Tape monitor outputs usually don't vary gain with changing the speaker volume. Pretty sure the H/K works that way. This was so you could record from and LP or radio at any volume and not mess your recording levels.

 

Bruce

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5 hours ago, Marvel said:

Tape monitor outputs usually don't vary gain with changing the speaker volume. Pretty sure the H/K works that way. This was so you could record from and LP or radio at any volume and not mess your recording levels.

 

Bruce


thanks! That seems like a bad solution then 

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