the amount of line voltage you need to produce the maximum amount of unclipped output will be determined by the input impedence of your amplifier, aka, some amps are far more sensitive to input voltage than others, the higher the sensitivity the less voltage you need, and saturating that input with too much signal voltage can be harmfull not only the voltage source, but the everything in the signal chain, why anyone would ever need more than 3-4 volts of ac signal is beyong me

 

Me before reading this thread [img]smile.gif[/img]

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Personal opinion: Regardless of the amplifier and the deck/preamp that feeds it, one should be able to make them work together through a proper gain matching procedure.

Line drivers have never made much sense to me. Back in the day we had between half and one volt to work with and somehow we had noise free systems [img]graemlins/dunno.gif[/img]