Because if a bass sound is hard-panned to one side or the other, you may miss it completely. Bass may be fairly nondirectional but that's no guarantee that the left and right channels of all recordings will be identical in the 20-80Hz range.
A quick & dirty way to blend the channels would be to put a 1kOhm resistor in series with each channel before going into a Y-connector. If your preamp can safely drive a 1kOhm load, then this will average the two signals, with a small amount of attenuation. The fancy way is to use larger resistors that tie together to feed the input of the buffer amp, which eliminates the problem of attenuation and allows you to present a higher (more friendly) load impedance to your preamp. -- John Stimson ------------------------------------------------------------------------ John Stimson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=218 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20907 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
