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Old 08-28-2004, 10:44 AM   #2 of 4
alan halvorson
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Well, I ain't no engineer, but I do know a touch about what Sunfire is doing. The difference between the "Voltage" and "Current" outputs is that the the "Current" output has a 1 ohm resister in series. This is an easy way to mimic a tube amplifiers output impedance. An amplifiers output impedance becomes part of the speaker load; therefore, it is desireable to have as low an output impedance as possible so that the speakers frequency response is not modified. It's doubtful that the amplifier designer is also the speaker designer; I'd sure hate spending big bucks on speakers designed to sound one way, only to insert an amplifier whose effect is to make it sound another.

Use the "Voltage" output; the "Current" output is a bad joke.



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