Seeking Output Voltage specs for the X-10 v3
Mar 15, 2019 17:54:49 GMT
Post by darkturban on Mar 15, 2019 17:54:49 GMT
Hi There:
So I stumbled on this forum only yesterday and am not a regular contributor, so I hope people don't mind me posting a question as I reached out to Musical Fidelity and I'm not very confident that I will ever hear anything back.
The question itself is pretty simple, and whether anyone knows the answer will be the challenge. I am looking to find out the output voltage on the X-10 v3 and it's not posted anywhere on line and is of course not in the listed specs / manual that MF provided with the product.
In case there is interest, I find that the signal going into my pre-amp from the tube buffer seems to be quite 'hot' and results in difficulties in using the volume pot on my pre-amp to full effect. It seems that my speakers are under driven until I really turn up the volume in which case my noise makers (Kef LS50s) really come alive and open up but at the expense of the undesired side effect of undue harshness (separate from what one might expect from a metal domed speaker). Now as source I do have an Oppo UDP-205 which has variable volume control (as well as channel trim settings available in the setup menu), but my success in using these to dial in the right amount of signal output to the rest of the chain has been limited - and believe me I have tried.
As a result I am looking at getting a set of Russ Andrews' attenuator plugs to see if that will help. But to know what dB rating is required I need to know both the output voltage as well as the input sensitivity in the sending & receiving gear, as I'm sure everyone here knows. And therein lies the problem. I know what the Oppo is outputting (2.1V rms) but I don't know if that output voltage is changing once it leaves the X-10 v3 and if it is changed - what that voltage number is. Thus...the question.
Anyway, I have been VERY happy with my tube buffer over the years and I am loath to remove it altogether as I have really enjoyed the warmth that it has brought to the inherent coldness of the spinners I have owned over the years, without sacrificing barely any detail at all. So I want to keep it in the chain but improve upon it. (And not that it matters either but I also have the X-PSU driving the buffer through a Revelation Audio Labs umbilical which has made this piece of kit just that much better).
That's it from me. If anyone knows this info and can share it I would be hugely grateful. Not being a modder, but only a tweaker & listener at heart, I welcome any help I can get.
Thanks in advance,
Dark Turban
So I stumbled on this forum only yesterday and am not a regular contributor, so I hope people don't mind me posting a question as I reached out to Musical Fidelity and I'm not very confident that I will ever hear anything back.
The question itself is pretty simple, and whether anyone knows the answer will be the challenge. I am looking to find out the output voltage on the X-10 v3 and it's not posted anywhere on line and is of course not in the listed specs / manual that MF provided with the product.
In case there is interest, I find that the signal going into my pre-amp from the tube buffer seems to be quite 'hot' and results in difficulties in using the volume pot on my pre-amp to full effect. It seems that my speakers are under driven until I really turn up the volume in which case my noise makers (Kef LS50s) really come alive and open up but at the expense of the undesired side effect of undue harshness (separate from what one might expect from a metal domed speaker). Now as source I do have an Oppo UDP-205 which has variable volume control (as well as channel trim settings available in the setup menu), but my success in using these to dial in the right amount of signal output to the rest of the chain has been limited - and believe me I have tried.
As a result I am looking at getting a set of Russ Andrews' attenuator plugs to see if that will help. But to know what dB rating is required I need to know both the output voltage as well as the input sensitivity in the sending & receiving gear, as I'm sure everyone here knows. And therein lies the problem. I know what the Oppo is outputting (2.1V rms) but I don't know if that output voltage is changing once it leaves the X-10 v3 and if it is changed - what that voltage number is. Thus...the question.
Anyway, I have been VERY happy with my tube buffer over the years and I am loath to remove it altogether as I have really enjoyed the warmth that it has brought to the inherent coldness of the spinners I have owned over the years, without sacrificing barely any detail at all. So I want to keep it in the chain but improve upon it. (And not that it matters either but I also have the X-PSU driving the buffer through a Revelation Audio Labs umbilical which has made this piece of kit just that much better).
That's it from me. If anyone knows this info and can share it I would be hugely grateful. Not being a modder, but only a tweaker & listener at heart, I welcome any help I can get.
Thanks in advance,
Dark Turban
