[spookanide]

If you meant getting balanced drive out of a V200, then, no, it's just one single ended output with two jacks for convenience.

Yup, found that out myself now actually. I built a 4pin xlr balanced adapter and used one channel from either output. It is NOT meant to be used that way.

 

[matts19]

Recently bought V200 and loving it. I also feed its pre-out to my active desktop speakers (Vanatoo T0) and boy never did I know my speakers could hit so hard, so low.

But why? I thought RCA cables normally carried only small current over 2V . I have to assume there is something going on here. Is V200 pre-out ports more than 2V ? No other head amps I used could make my loud speakers hit so hard, so low. Not Singxer SA-1, not Asgard 3, not OTL amplifiers. It is like, I don't need to upgrade my speakers anymore.

 

[spookanide]

Recently bought V200 and loving it. I also feed its pre-out to my active speakers and boy never did I know my speakers could hit so hard, so low.

But why? I thought RCA cables normally carried only small current over 2V . I have to assume there is something going on here. Is V200 pre-out ports more than 2V ? No other head amps I used could make my speaker hit so hard, so low. Not Singxer SA-1, not Asgard 3, not OTL amplifiers. It is like, I don't need to upgrade my speakers anymore.

The V200 certainly has a color to the sound, it's not about the drive.

 

[matts19]

The V200 certainly has a color to the sound, it's not about the drive.

I tell ya, the speakers thump way more with V200. Much like it makes your headphones way more dynamic. But yeah I see what you mean, that (dynamics) could just be due to coloring.

 

[jonathan c]

An excellent pairing if one seeks natural and rewarding sound.

[Cable is Lavricables Grand Silver. The Beyerdynamic DT-880 (600 ohm) was modified to ‘cable detachable’ by Custom Cans UK (jfunk.org)]

 

[spookanide]

I tell ya, the speakers thump way more with V200. Much like it makes your headphones way more dynamic. But yeah I see what you mean, that (dynamics) could just be due to coloring.

Not the dynamics, but I think the signature balance is skewed towards the bottom to get that satisfying rumble. I love it tbh. To me this very dynamic sound should always be the goal. It might be applying slight gain expansion as opposed to gain linearity or even compression, but who cares it sounds awesome. Amps like the THX AAA or certain DACs got on my nerves because it feels like it's all held back a bit.

How are you using pre-out though? I have an older model with RCA and XLR inputs, do the RCAs double as a pre-out?

 

[Kozwoz]

I tell ya, the speakers thump way more with V200. Much like it makes your headphones way more dynamic. But yeah I see what you mean, that (dynamics) could just be due to coloring.

What exactly do you have? The V200 doesn’t come with pre-amp out. Only ins.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

I think none of the 200 series do except for the V281.

 

[Kozwoz]

Actually I just checked are the RCA say “unbalanced in/out” - is this to mean they can’t either be used in or out? How does that work.

 

[Fegefeuer]

You can set jumpers to use the RCA as input or output. Line Level is fixed.

 

[Kozwoz]

You can set jumpers to use the RCA as input or output. Line Level is fixed.

Does this mean there is no volume control? And if not can you control gain via internal jumpers?

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Guys, if you decide to change the jumper it would be a good idea to use a labelmaker or at least some write kind of sticker on the back panel to remind yourself what mode the RCA jacks are set to.

 

[gimmeheadroom]

Does this mean there is volume control?

No, that's what he said. Fixed level, not affected by volume. Fried refers to this mode as "a buffer."

 

[Kozwoz]

Do you find that the sound is consistent when running to active speakers as it is with headphone out? Same characteristics?

 

[gimmeheadroom]

As far as I know it's a buffered passthrough. It does not go through the amplification circuit, it should not sound any different than what came in on the XLR inputs.