Pick up awards at the Wolf Garcia center any time. I have had 2 to 3 things hooked up to my preamp outputs (2 RCA and one XLR) with zero apparent issues for a while now, currently using 2 (tube power amp and a SS amp used for deck speakers) as I no longer have anything that utilizes the XLR outs…the third thing was a little headphone amp…may have to get a pair of XLR adapters to get the headphone amp back in the system, although it’s rarely used. I had wondered about a related topic when Morrow noted you can break in their cables by driving them to another component that is off (preamp to unpowered power amp for example). Seems weird as I would think a component that’s off would act like something that’s not there at all and not draw any signal...but hey…maybe Morrow knows things.
Preamps with two main-outs
Question for folks with two separate stereo amps driven by a single preamp. My preamp has two main outputs feeding two separate amps - one stereo and one pair of monoblocks, driving two pairs of speakers in two different rooms. Is it normal to need to turn on all the amplifiers to play any music? In other words, I can't just turn on my stereo amp to listen to music in one room. Its all or nothing. Fortunately the mono amps (MC2200) have volume control and I can turn them all the way down but can't do that for the stereo amp for the speakers in the other room. I was wondering if this is normal for all preamps with multiple pre-outs or its dependent on a particular preamp model. If it matters, the preamp is a NAD C165BEE. Thanks.
P.S. The second main-out has a little knob for gain control but its on the back of the preamp next to the ports and not practical to use for this purpose.