Adcom,Ati, Outlaw

[dholmes]

Just wondering, does ATI make amps for Adcom & Outlaw, or does Adcom make them all?

[hoosier21]

I have always read ATI makes Outlaw, no idea about Adcom.

[dholmes]

Thanks, I was wanting to trade in my Ati amps for the big Adcom with 300 wattsx7 & balanced inputs. Is there a difference in sq with balanced vs standard inputs?

[heiney9]

As far as I know Adcom has nothing to do with either company. Although the way things change hands now days this may not be true. But as far as I am aware Adcom is just Adcom. There was some talk on the forum before about ATI and Outlaw being similar.

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[heiney9]

Thanks, I was wanting to trade in my Ati amps for the big Adcom with 300 wattsx7 & balanced inputs. Is there a difference in sq with balanced vs standard inputs?

Not really, unless you have runs of cable over 20 feet or so. If your whole system isn't balanced (i.e.; cdp, etc) no advantage. If it comes with a balanced option std then no problem, but I wouldn't pay extra just for that feature.

[jrlouie]

I had noise in my system somewhere. I don't know if it was noisy power lines or what, but flipping back and forth on my Outlaw 7500 from balanced to unbalanced drastically dropped the noise floor when running in balanced mode. I'm guessing the XLR cable's noise cancellation traits helped me.
That doesn't mean I should've ignored that there was noise lurking though.

All my interconnects were less than 10 feet long. Probably most were 1 meter.

[dholmes]

Thanks again everyone! I just received the Adcom gtp-870hd pre-pro with balanced inputs & was wondering if it was worth trading to balanced inputs on a amp. My rca cable lengths are 6 ft.