Can you test an amp without a tuner?
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Face
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I believe I read that you could hook a cd player directly up to a power amp to test it. I know I'll have to turn the gain to 0 and slowly increase it till I hear sound.
The reason I ask it, I may have found a deal on a nice amp, but he already sold his pre-amp and I don't feel like dismantling my system.
TIA,
The reason I ask it, I may have found a deal on a nice amp, but he already sold his pre-amp and I don't feel like dismantling my system.
TIA,
"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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I usually test amps with my iPod, because it has volume control on it.
Plug adapter into iPod, plug adapter into amp, turn iPod on, make sure volume is all the way down, turn on amp, pick a song, play song, slowly turn volume up.
Anyway, that's how I do it. If you hook up a CDP without gain/volume control, make sure your amp has gain/volume control. If neither has gain control, I'd find another solution.
I had my old Sony ES (CA80ES) hooked up directly to my amp for a while, but even at it's lowest volume setting (on the CDP), it was already at a moderate volume level.Stereo Rig: Hales Revelation 3, Musical Fidelity CD-Pre 24, Forte Model 3 amp, Lexicon RT-10 SACD, MMF-5 w/speedbox, Forte Model 2 Phono Pre, Cardas Crosslink, APC H15, URC MX-950, Lovan Stand
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I didn't even realize I have a PDA that will work, thanks!"He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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Good luck. If it blows up, I hope you do not hold me personally liable
Stereo Rig: Hales Revelation 3, Musical Fidelity CD-Pre 24, Forte Model 3 amp, Lexicon RT-10 SACD, MMF-5 w/speedbox, Forte Model 2 Phono Pre, Cardas Crosslink, APC H15, URC MX-950, Lovan Stand
Bedroom: Samsung HPR-4252, Toshiba HD-A2, HK 3480, Signal Cable, AQ speaker cable, Totem Dreamcatchers, SVS PB10-NSD, URC MX-850 -
either your CDP has to have variable audio outputs or your amp has to have gain controls to be able to do this correctly.. either way. turn the amp volume all the way down. and use crappy speakers just in case.PolkFest 2012, who's going>?
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