Jameszep,
I'm not sure if the KRC-3 is fully balanced or quasi-balanced. The manual note may say that you will get +6 dB of gain running balanced, but their spec sheet in the manual does not indicate this. It says 6.5 dB of gain....period.
Most spec sheets that offer balanced and unbalanced outputs would have a spec sheet that states:
Gain - 6.5 dB unbalanced, 12.5 dB balanced
The Krell does not do this, so you would have to contact Krell to find out where the error is in their manual. Is it in their +6 dB note, or on their specification sheet.
If you don't hear a +6 dB difference, I would suspect a quasi-balanced design, which does not provide a +6 dB gain that fully balanced designs do, and that the printing error would be in the +6 dB note that was probably written by a marketing agent. The spec sheet is usually written by the engineering department, and therefore more accurate.
I'm not sure if the KRC-3 is fully balanced or quasi-balanced. The manual note may say that you will get +6 dB of gain running balanced, but their spec sheet in the manual does not indicate this. It says 6.5 dB of gain....period.
Most spec sheets that offer balanced and unbalanced outputs would have a spec sheet that states:
Gain - 6.5 dB unbalanced, 12.5 dB balanced
The Krell does not do this, so you would have to contact Krell to find out where the error is in their manual. Is it in their +6 dB note, or on their specification sheet.
If you don't hear a +6 dB difference, I would suspect a quasi-balanced design, which does not provide a +6 dB gain that fully balanced designs do, and that the printing error would be in the +6 dB note that was probably written by a marketing agent. The spec sheet is usually written by the engineering department, and therefore more accurate.