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External Power Amps and AVR challenging conventional Wisdom? Or Not?
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<blockquote data-quote="User121314" data-source="post: 1010301" data-attributes="member: 16824"><p>It's easy to see (feel) if they are working as hard as if you had speakers connected: heat. Connect your fronts to the AVR & the heat output of the AVR will increase noticeably. Connect them to the external amp via pre-outs & the AVR heat will decrease. Again, noticeably.</p><p>The amps cannot "work" with no load connected. Bizkit posted a video link in a different thread somewhere that explains it clearly - the distortion you *may* hear at excessively high volume for the AVR is actually the pre-amp of the AVR causing distortion, not the unused amp channels.</p><p></p><p>*edit* - Not being technically minded with regard to electrical circuits etc. I actually had a long conversation with Geco about this in order to understand it better, and he concurred, the amps cannot be "working" if there is no load connected. Thus it is in all likelihood the pre-amp section causing the distortion.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="User121314, post: 1010301, member: 16824"] It's easy to see (feel) if they are working as hard as if you had speakers connected: heat. Connect your fronts to the AVR & the heat output of the AVR will increase noticeably. Connect them to the external amp via pre-outs & the AVR heat will decrease. Again, noticeably. The amps cannot "work" with no load connected. Bizkit posted a video link in a different thread somewhere that explains it clearly - the distortion you *may* hear at excessively high volume for the AVR is actually the pre-amp of the AVR causing distortion, not the unused amp channels. *edit* - Not being technically minded with regard to electrical circuits etc. I actually had a long conversation with Geco about this in order to understand it better, and he concurred, the amps cannot be "working" if there is no load connected. Thus it is in all likelihood the pre-amp section causing the distortion. [/QUOTE]
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