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Hero999 said:100m balancing resistors.
Hero999 said:No, 100 mili-ohms.
I'm confused, I thought he was talking about paralleling the left and right channels and 100m is totally different to a complete short which would be in the region of 1/100 of that value.Nigel Goodwin said:That's completely pointless?, you may as well just short them together as use 100 milli-ohm resistors!.
It's a standard requirement to feed a sub-woofer amplifier, and it's normal to use resistors in the kilo-ohm region to avoid overloading the driving preamp circuit (and not to mention shorting out the existing signals for it).
Hero999 said:I'm confused, I thought he was talking about paralleling the left and right channels and 100m is totally different to a complete short which would be in the region of 1/100 of that value.
Then you are shorting the stereo channels together. When the signals on the two channels are trying to be different then their outputs mght be damaged or they might produce severe distortion.Othello said:If I had unbalanced lines my guess would have been to simply connect left ground to right ground and left hot wire to right hot wire.
Oh sorry, I missed the balanced bit.Nigel Goodwin said:In comparison to the 600 ohm (presumably) output of the balanced preamp it's exactly the same as a piece of wire! - and assuming this was a power amplifier (which it's not) two 100 milli-ohm resistors connected across the L & R outputs would destroy the amplifier.