Differene between lounge lizard session and lounge lizard 4

#Differene between lounge lizard session and lounge lizard 4 manual

I welcome any thoughts and would love to hear from the folks at Emotiva what they have to say about this. I suppose one could speculate the balanced XLR inputs to the RMC are not truly differential balanced designs either but that would not explain why the RCA still has more gain when clearly it shouldn't. Worth noting though I have also used BJC Belden 1800F, Pangea True Balanced Premium SE, and some DIY XLRs all with the same results. FWIW I used a pair of BJC LC-1 for the RCA interconnects and a pair of Mogami 2534 for the balanced connection for comparison. Effectively this is a discrepancy of 10 db.

#Differene between lounge lizard session and lounge lizard 4 manual

The specs page in the owners manual of the ERC-4 states 4 volts RMS output for 12 db of gain, while the RCA outputs have 2 volts RMS with 6 db of gain. It came as no big surprise the RCA analog outputs play 4 db louder than the balanced outputs, more in line with my Oppo 203, yet still a bit lower in output. This afternoon it finally occurred to my why not compare the ERC-4's balanced outputs to its RCA unbalanced outputs. What I have come to believe is the ERC-4, contrary to the claims of Emotiva, is not really a truly differential balanced device with anywhere near the output they claim.

Several days ago I started another thread regarding the ERC-4 and while it didn't gain much attention I also know there are many of us that own either the ERC-4 or ERC-3 and thought my delving into this might be of interest to those owners.