8v/16v Outputs & Old School Input Circuity

[psycho72 10+ year member]

I was at Elite and I saw a thread with a PPI Art Series for sale and he mentioned that it's input circuitry was modified to accept up to 9v preouts. So I asked him what he meant and he told me that older amps input circuitry can easily fry if you put some high volt preouts to them.

Now I quickly crapped my pants and grabbed my shopping list because I have been trying to get a pair of PPI Art Series or PG amps to run with an Eclipse 8053 with balanced line converter dealey bob (turns the 6-8v outs from the hu into 3-16v outs).

Is this true about the input circuitry? Is this only an issue with decade old hardware or is this an issue with all amps that are'nt say Zapco or Brax or some other million dollar amp setup? Is this only an issue when you turn the volume up too loud? Or is this one of those gain things where if I simply set it up with a multimeter I have nothing to worry about?

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[squeak9798 5,000+ posts]

Do the PPI Art series amps even accept balanced inputs? I don't think they do......which would make the balanced line convertor pretty much a waste of time and money.

 

[psycho72 10+ year member]

Do the PPI Art series amps even accept balanced inputs? I don't think they do......which would make the balanced line convertor pretty much a waste of time and money.

Aww crap you know what I was looking at that thing backwards and did'nt even register that the rcas where from the hu and that the funny phone jack plug was for the amp. **** that is a serious crack moment. Well what about the straight 8v signal from the hu?? I still told the same thing about such a high output signal? And what about in general forget about the PPI Art Series?

 

[nosaj070 10+ year member]

Well it is possibly to fry it with too much input voltage. But most amps regardless of what numbers are printed around the gain knob will accept quite high voltage. I've never been lucky to toy with any Art series, so I cannot be too much help in that specific area, but.......

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[Raven 10+ year member]

I've never fried an input circuit before, and I've AMPED preouts before. That said, your HU will rarely actually push 8 volts, so you'll be fine. If the price is right, go for it.

 

[DJ FURY 10+ year member]

U will not fry a an old school ppi art series with 8 volts....I ran an 8443 to a ppi a600 without any prob.