Velocityboat
Super Member
I currently have a R-2000 150 WPC driving some Mcintosh XRT20s and a R-1000 100 WPC driving XR19 Mcintosh speakers with the the R-2000 being preamp for R-1000. I am considering using a Yamaha PC2602 pro amp 260 WPC to drive the XRT20 speakers and let the R-2000 drive XR19s.
Can I just hook the Preamp on R-2000 to XLRs on PC2602 in unbalanced switched mode then daisy chain off the other set of XLRs to feed signal to amp on R-1000 to drive another set of Mc XR5 speakers.
What will provide more grunt to the XRT20s and XR19s which are 8 Ohm speakers? Both XRT20 and XR19 running off same tap of PC2602 for 4 Ohm load and 400 WPc. Or letting the PC2602 just drive 8 ohms to XRT20s at 260 WPC and Ri2000 drive XR19s at 8 ohm with 150 WPC with its 3 dB headroom?
If I hook up with seperate Amps what is best way to set gain of PC2602 to achieve balanced sound with R-2000 to both of big Mcintosh? By ear?
The PC2602 has a bigger transformer draws 1300 watts. The R2000 is no slouch with X power and some huge Caps but operates drawing 550 watt PS.
Thanks for input!
Can I just hook the Preamp on R-2000 to XLRs on PC2602 in unbalanced switched mode then daisy chain off the other set of XLRs to feed signal to amp on R-1000 to drive another set of Mc XR5 speakers.
What will provide more grunt to the XRT20s and XR19s which are 8 Ohm speakers? Both XRT20 and XR19 running off same tap of PC2602 for 4 Ohm load and 400 WPc. Or letting the PC2602 just drive 8 ohms to XRT20s at 260 WPC and Ri2000 drive XR19s at 8 ohm with 150 WPC with its 3 dB headroom?
If I hook up with seperate Amps what is best way to set gain of PC2602 to achieve balanced sound with R-2000 to both of big Mcintosh? By ear?
The PC2602 has a bigger transformer draws 1300 watts. The R2000 is no slouch with X power and some huge Caps but operates drawing 550 watt PS.
Thanks for input!