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System to system

I am fairly new to high end stuff and am still kingda in the learning curve stage.
I have a Cary tube preamp and amp that runs through a set of Harbeth HL5 speakers. I also have a large Sansui G9000 solid state that has been all recapped and brought up to todays standards. I'd like to run the Sansui in my rack as a secondary system to utilize the tuner and power a Sony transport and Lite DAC that are also in the rack. Can I run speaker leads to my Harbeth speakers and hook them up to the binding posts that also are hooked up to my Cary system without causing any damage or feedback? I would never run the systems at the same time.
markus1299

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aball
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No, you can't. The reason is that you will have the amp's output impedance in parallel with your speaker AND the other amp's output impedance. This will cause too many issues to be useful.

I assume your Sansui has crappy wire jacks for the speaker leads. If you can adapt them to bananas and use banana terminations on your speaker cables, it will be easy to just swap amps when necessary.

Look to see if your Sansui has pre-out jacks so you can just run it to your Cary preamp and have the tuner that way. Some receivers had pre-outs and others didn't so you have to check. This would be the cleanest (assuming your Cary has two extra inputs for both the tuner and Sony/Lite).

Arthur
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