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Briman42487 previously said:
like i said, you are comparing apples to oranges with most companies outputs. more voltage doesnt mean a cleaner signal, it just means more voltage. i commonly hear more noise in the system with a line driver installed.
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Is it a bad line driver or something? I have heard nothing but good things about Audiocontrols Line Drivers and everyone that I have asked says to use them since they boost the signal. A bit pulled from Wikipedia.
In Mobile Audio, a line driver is a small amplifier used to bolster the strength of the audio signal coming from the source unit.
The newly strengthened signal is then fed to its appropriate amplifier.
Gain on an amplifier needs to be set with regard to the input voltage the amplifier sees - the lower the input voltage, the greater the gain to produce a given loudness. When amplifying a very low-voltage signal, the noise-floor of the system raises, meaning that the amplifier is not only amplifying the low-voltage audio signal, but also the low-voltage noises picked up in the line along the way. By using a line driver, the amplifier's gains need not be set so high, thereby amplifying the audio signal with less of the low-level noise.
This can be useful especially in long runs of signal cable, which are more prone to picking up noise.
