Bottom line: sounds like this amp isn't going to work very well for you when doing quiet listening.
No preamp or any other solution that might come before the amp in the signal chain is going to fix this problem. The problem is that you want to listen to audio at a level that falls below the threshold of your amp's auto-sensing feature. Possible solutions: 1. Many amps have gain (might also be called trim or volume) controls built into them. Depending on where in the signal chain the gain control comes you may be able to achieve what you desire by turning the gain on the amp down and the volume control on your squeezebox up. 2. If there's no gain control on the amp, then you could put speaker-level attenuators on the outputs of the amp. This would reduce the volume output at the speakers so that you can run the squeezebox's output at a higher level that might more easily trigger the amp. There are a couple of disadvantages to this: extra device in the signal chain and "wasted" amp power, but those are probably acceptable in most situations. 3. If neither of the first two are acceptable solutions, then you could turn off the auto-sensing feature of the amp (virtually all amps allow you to bypass the feature), thus leaving your amp to be turned on and off manually. If you don't want to turn it on and off manually, some amps have "triggered" on/off capabilities, which you could rig your sb3 to trigger, or, if that isn't possible, then companies like Xantech offer solutions which sit inline with the power cable to offer you IR and other automated/remote ways of turning devices on and off. (BTW, what you're experiencing is not clipping--that's something completely different) Hope this helps... -- azinck3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ azinck3's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3967 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29012 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
