The preamp circuitry is not out of the loop when you use the tape outs. You can listen to both setups and determine if there is any signal degradation when connected.
Source to two Preamps question:
Just wanted to check with all of you and determine if what I'm about to do will wreck my sound or is just plain wrong and lazy.
Situation:
1) I have a Solid State setup (Audio Refinement Multi5 and Pre5) and Tube setup (Cary Integrated SLI-80), I use both a lot, but am getting very tired of changing output pairs on the back of my source each time I want to switch between them.
2) My proposed solution is to put the output pair into the Pre5 and then use the tape monitor loop directly to the Cary whenever I want to use it.
3) Can you stack preamps on top of one another like this? Source->Solid State Pre->Tube Pre via tape loop, or would it sound better how I was doing it originally?
So far it seems the tape loop disables all volume and passes through -- but I just want to make sure that the tape loop takes all the preamp circuitry out of the 'loop' before I make this permanent. I'm looking for the Pre5 to be totally transparent when using the Cary. Is that what the tape loop does?
Thanks,
Jason
Situation:
1) I have a Solid State setup (Audio Refinement Multi5 and Pre5) and Tube setup (Cary Integrated SLI-80), I use both a lot, but am getting very tired of changing output pairs on the back of my source each time I want to switch between them.
2) My proposed solution is to put the output pair into the Pre5 and then use the tape monitor loop directly to the Cary whenever I want to use it.
3) Can you stack preamps on top of one another like this? Source->Solid State Pre->Tube Pre via tape loop, or would it sound better how I was doing it originally?
So far it seems the tape loop disables all volume and passes through -- but I just want to make sure that the tape loop takes all the preamp circuitry out of the 'loop' before I make this permanent. I'm looking for the Pre5 to be totally transparent when using the Cary. Is that what the tape loop does?
Thanks,
Jason