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<blockquote data-quote="ciaonzo" data-source="post: 8146782" data-attributes="member: 607015">Yep, it&#039;s definitely a balancing act. Too little input voltage and you won&#039;t drive the amplifier to full output, but you will have a ton of noise (noise floor) and distortion form cranking the gain up while trying. Too much input voltage and your volume &#039;knob&#039; will be too sensitive (gets too loud too quickly) and you may also overdrive the amplifier inputs. Both situations can suffer from clipping, whether you&#039;re clipping your head&#039;s outputs trying to get all the voltage it can muster, or if your high voltage line driver is clipping the preamp stage on your amplfier from being overdriven. Amplifying either of those is less than ideal.In the end, the goal is to leave the gain alone if at all possible (and it is) or to adjust it as little as possible. I mean, unless you really like the sound of hiss and/or distorted anemic bass, strident midrange, etc...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ciaonzo, post: 8146782, member: 607015"] Yep, it's definitely a balancing act. Too little input voltage and you won't drive the amplifier to full output, but you will have a ton of noise (noise floor) and distortion form cranking the gain up while trying. Too much input voltage and your volume 'knob' will be too sensitive (gets too loud too quickly) and you may also overdrive the amplifier inputs. Both situations can suffer from clipping, whether you're clipping your head's outputs trying to get all the voltage it can muster, or if your high voltage line driver is clipping the preamp stage on your amplfier from being overdriven. Amplifying either of those is less than ideal. In the end, the goal is to leave the gain alone if at all possible (and it is) or to adjust it as little as possible. I mean, unless you really like the sound of hiss and/or distorted anemic bass, strident midrange, etc... [/QUOTE]

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