noiseportrait
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I'm upgrading from my crappy roland powered monitors to either some passive yorkvilles or event 20/20s. The reason I decided to switch to a passive setup is because I got a great deal on a hafler power amp and pre-amp, and I also thought it would be cool to be able to switch between several passive sets of speakers using one amplifier. I just have a few questions about how to acomplish this. First of all, the hafler power amp came with a separate pre amp unit, and I was wondering If I should run my signal through the pre-amp too, or just directly into the power amp. It seems that I see a lot of studios with power amps for their monitors, but no pre amp. Is there a reason for this? If it is possible, I would like to use the pre amp because it has a signal attenuator on it and I could therefor bypass my crappy mixer which I am using for my monitor level control now. I was also wondering how I could hook up several speakers to the amp so that I could switch between them? The amp only has 1 set of speaker connections, and I was hoping that there would be some way of branching off of them without too much signal deterioration. I only need to run 1 set of speakers at a time.