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i was looking at a rokker amp and noticed the pictures have the pre-amp inputs plugged into a high output line going into the amp (ie it looks like the amp / RCA jacks have adapters that allow you to attach the same inputs to the stockHK head unit). The wiring diagram seems to be consistent with this as well.
My experience is that there is distortion if you are not using the pre-amp (RCA jacks) into the amp. If you want to use the highout put from a head unit into RCA jacks, then I have seen people use some type of in-line step down, which is not shown or included in the Rokker amp.
My question is how can the amp handle both input types through the same leds? Am I overthinking this?
That amp allows for high voltage input to the RCAs and does the conversion for you, as it has the line out converter capability built in, adding another one doesn't do much unless your going higher end LOC and switching to balanced line out.
Short answer, use what you have your good to go, adjust gains based on when distortion starts at your desired top end volume and back the gain off a bit
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