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    MEASUREMENTS

    Dec 10, 2019 3 minutes
    —John Atkinson

    measured the Benchmark LA4’s performance with my Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see the January 2008 “As We See It”). The gain for the balanced inputs to the balanced output with the volume control set to “+15” was exactly 15dB, and reducing the control to “0.0” resulted in a gain of 0dB—ie, the output voltage was the same as the input voltage. For the unbalanced inputs to the unbalanced output, the maximum gain was 5.25dB. Pressing the “–20” mute button on the touchscreen reduced

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