Preamplifiers
Parasound Halo P7 Preamplifier
- Written by Rick Schmidt
- Published on 20 February 2009
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Introduction
The Parasound Halo P 7 Preamp is a problem solver. The problem is the gap between home theater systems and hi-end stereo systems. Many home theater buyers are fond of the stereo systems that they already own (and paid big bucks for), those that don't already have a stereo might find that they can afford a lot more two channel gear than 7.1 channel gear and since 90-100% of their music collection is two channel.. well, you get the idea. But unless you are a hifi nut like me, you don't have a room dedicated to the stereo and another dedicated to the home theater.
Specifications
- Frequency Response: 5 Hz - 100 kHz, +0/-3 dB
- Total harmonic distortion:
- < 0.006% at 20 kHz
- Line Input Impedance :
- Unbalanced: 14.2k Ω
- Balanced: 4.7k Ω per leg
- Phono Input Impedance :
- MM setting: 47k Ω
- MC setting: 100 Ω
- Output Impedance :
- Unbalanced: < 60 Ω
- Unbalanced: < 60 Ω per leg
- Total Gain: 14 dB (Volume limiter set to 110)
- Dimensions:
- Width: 17-1/4" (437 mm)
- Depth: 13-3/4" (350 mm)
- Height, with feet: 4-1/8" (105 mm)
- Height, without feet: 3-1/2" (89 mm)
- Weight:
- Net: 13.5 lbs. (6.1 Kg)
- Shipping: 20.5 lbs. (9.3 Kg)
- S/N ratio:
> 110 dB, input shorted, IHF A-weighted
> 95 dB, input shorted, unweighted - Cross-talk:
85 dB at 20 kHz - MSRP $2000 USD
- Parasound
Here comes the P 7 to solve your problems. The Parasound P 7 is a high quality preamp designed to integrate your two channel and multi channel systems. Not a preamp-preprocessor (pre-pro). There is no digital processing in the P 7. What the P 7 does is allow you to integrate any combination of two channel source components, multichannel source components, two channel amplifiers and multichannel amplifiers.
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