I am somewhat confused by this second post of late which refers to impedance matching in a preamp. I would think that all preamps would have a fairly standard range for resistance in and the ability to cope with an easy after-load. What am I not understanding.
I never thought of them like a tube power amp's power out against a load that it is designed to play with. With amps the range is so great from 2 kilowatt Macs to 3 watt 2A3 or 45 SETs that you must be selective interms of what will work. Trying to use big Maggies with a flea powered SET is plainly ludicrous. If you choose 16 ohm resistance high efficiency speakers then you stand a good chance that you will actually get the system to play music.
Also as I understand it the Cary is not particularily sensitive to load variance due to it's potent power supply and the coupling transformers.
I never thought of them like a tube power amp's power out against a load that it is designed to play with. With amps the range is so great from 2 kilowatt Macs to 3 watt 2A3 or 45 SETs that you must be selective interms of what will work. Trying to use big Maggies with a flea powered SET is plainly ludicrous. If you choose 16 ohm resistance high efficiency speakers then you stand a good chance that you will actually get the system to play music.
Also as I understand it the Cary is not particularily sensitive to load variance due to it's potent power supply and the coupling transformers.