HI Brucek,
Please let me ask you to comment on these remarks made on another forum
http://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/showthread.php?9605-balanced-cable-splitter:
"You will have no problem with a single hardwired spilt. The only issue maybe and that is a very very small maybe if by chance the preamp outputs and the crossover inputs were transformer coupled, again that is A very very very small chance."
How, in your opinion, would this apply to splitting a BDA1 signal in to the BHA1 and the BP26?
"Depending upon what you are interconneting, you might develop a loading (impedance) differential between the legs, but that is not a common result, so forge ahead. If there is a loading difference, it merely results in a gain difference - not big, but it can happen. If the loads are the same, this does not occur, particularly if you are doing the same thing to both L and R. "
Again, please reflect on the Bryston situation if you can? I wouldn't want the gain difference, as said, one of the reasons I'd opt for the switcher.
Thanks a lot ,
Marius
btw, if this splitting/switching hijacks the forum subject too much, i apologize, maybe we can take this to a separate thread.
Splitting a signal from a low impedance source to two high impedance sources divides the impedance that the source sees - not the voltage. It's not a power connection - negligible current is being drawn, so the voltage is maintained.
The only difficulty in producing a balanced splitter is soldering two wires on a pin rather than one. I have no doubt they overcharge for it though. I can't imagine a splitter box would be less difficult or expensive to create.
brucek