Thanks @atmasphere and @rauliruegas for the advice. It in not that I get hum, is just that with the dayton sub amp I get minimal white noise at around 120 hz and what i think is a higher noise floor. My bryston preamp only has one balanced and one rca outs, and i use the balanced ones first a Vandersteen m5hp high pass filters which cut at 80 hz and then to my bryston amp , susequently a cable that goes from the amp outputs to to the two Vandersteen 2wq subs. The unbalanced output of the preamp goes directly to the Dayton sub amp and then to three 10 inch B&W passive subs. So yes , a total of five subs.
Ralph, I will try the advice you gave to @rlb61 as i think we have a very similar case. I just want to make sure that by adding the use of the unbalanced pre outputs to Dayton i am not degrading the signal in any way as pointed above ¨Unless the preamp has entirely separate circuitry driving the RCA and XLR outputs, when driving both you will have a lower impedance load on one of the XLR signal pins (pin 2 or 3) than you do on the other. The preamp may make less voltage on the pin that has the lower impedance load, but at any rate the total impedance to ground will be lower on that side even if the output voltage is unaffected.
This will in turn reduce the Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR) that is available to the main amplifier, which will raise the noise floor and possibly also the distortion¨. ´on the other hand @rauliruegas picked up some info from Bryston ¨two of these op-amps are to buffer the signal to the tape output and level control, the remaining four for the two balanced outputs. These integrated circuits are specified as delivering high output with low noise. "
Could we deduct something from these facts? Thanks in advance for your help.
Ralph, I will try the advice you gave to @rlb61 as i think we have a very similar case. I just want to make sure that by adding the use of the unbalanced pre outputs to Dayton i am not degrading the signal in any way as pointed above ¨Unless the preamp has entirely separate circuitry driving the RCA and XLR outputs, when driving both you will have a lower impedance load on one of the XLR signal pins (pin 2 or 3) than you do on the other. The preamp may make less voltage on the pin that has the lower impedance load, but at any rate the total impedance to ground will be lower on that side even if the output voltage is unaffected.
This will in turn reduce the Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR) that is available to the main amplifier, which will raise the noise floor and possibly also the distortion¨. ´on the other hand @rauliruegas picked up some info from Bryston ¨two of these op-amps are to buffer the signal to the tape output and level control, the remaining four for the two balanced outputs. These integrated circuits are specified as delivering high output with low noise. "
Could we deduct something from these facts? Thanks in advance for your help.

