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well the more volts you can get to your amp the more the amp can use its full power and the more power usally means more db right... I have one, I know for some guys it make a 1 or 2 db difference, you need good rca voltage
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Well, if you really think about it, even the most powerful line drivers arent going to give you more than 2 watts of preamp power. Must HU's will give you less than .5 watt.
So, I guess you could say that's an extra watt or two of amplification you get with a line driver. I doubt u would see this in your SPL score.
On the other hand, I do know of some competitors that use line drives and have told me they saw their score go up after adding them.
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yes a line driver could help your spl. if u want a really good line driver preamp here is what u do.
1. get a small 20 watt x 2 chanel amp. make shure its not a big amp or u will over drive the amps used for subs and highs.
2. hook the speaker leads to the rcas.
in a earlier post sombody said a line driver only gives out 2 watts. Well if u get a small 20 x 2 watt amp and have the gain set really low then that would give u alot more voltage. This is because rca voltage is a/c current correct. Now output of an amp is a/c current. so there for u get alot more volts of input rather than useing a costly line driver. just my thoughts ive done this for a sq set up beofore. dk
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Will use an amp as a line driver blow the imputs Vf the second amp. My current amp have 1,5V imputs and I think a line driver amp will put over 10V.
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As long as your HU can give your amp the necessary input voltage to drive it to full output, a line driver will not do much good, except for lowering the noise floor. Oh, it could be used to drive the inputs to the point of clipping.
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I have an audio control 4.1 line driver with a soundstream rubicon 1002 for my subs. how many volts does that line driver add and how many volts will my amp hold before getting hot.
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Mmats amps dont need alot of voltage and infact a line driver will most likely cause them to clip even with the gain on the amp all the way down, trust me, I have a D100hc and a PG line driver, well the Line driver isnt in anymore, since I dont like for my subs to go b___u___m____p_____ hehe, just a little explaination of what high signal voltage does to the Mmats class D amps, I read somewhere where they only need .5 to 2.5 volts and max is like 4, hope that helps.
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