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I don't think the crown ever retailed for $800. Even the QSC GX7 retailed for less than that.
Huh.... For some reason I always thought the Crown1500 was way cheaper than the big QSC. I guess not.Still, I like macrojack's post about keeping your perspective when entering the world of modifications. Something to consider anyway.
Just purchased some balanced cables, I've been using an XLR-RCA cable form my Dspeaker Dual Core 2.0.I hope to receive them soon and do a comparison.Chris
Yeah - you definetely need to see some movement on the input signal when you crank it up. Many have reported good results with both cheap amd expensive tube preamps. I use a cheap one (Little bear P3) with good results. There are also some people that connect speaker level from separate amp with home made cables with rca on one side and speaker connection on the other with some resistors in between. I want to try this at some point but haven't dared (convinced myself it is save) to do this with the other amp I have. This probably makes more sense if using the amps for subs.Also check craigslist, ebay and guitar center for used stuff. A lot of pro audio can be had cheap if you look around abit. Btw: if you are using it with an avr you may want to look into if you can manually adjust up the output level for the channels you send to the crown. May not work but at least worth a try. It also sounds like you have room correction on and another thing to do is to see if you can run the signal direct without any dsp adjustments in the receiver. Good luck.
The Apex units were recommended, I never needed one in my system though. See post 511.http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=105826.500