Fryette Power Station impedance matching

SunDevil

This question really needs to go to Fryette, but I've never had an email response from them in my life and right now, they don't seem to be keen on picking up the phone either, so I'm hoping someone with a broad technical knowledge might be able to give me a pointer..?

The Power station has an impedance matching function, so you can set the input to match the amp and the output to a different impedance to match a differently rated cab

As I understand it, this is done via a transformer

I'd like to use this matching with the Power Station in bypass - so the question is to whether I can use the Power Station to avoid an amp / cab mismatch in standby?

This is only to run a 16 ohm speaker to an 8 ohm cab, so it's no doubt OK, but I'd like to use the PS if I can?

cheers

Baz

SunDevil

I think @ICBM just answered this on another thread - as long as the amp is matched to the Power Station, I'm good :-)

ICBM

Not if it's bypassed, necessarily. It depends on how the bypass is achieved.

If it physically bypasses the circuitry and connects the output directly to the input - which is what the manual says - then you will have a mismatch. In practice this may not matter anyway since most valve amps will tolerate a 2:1 mismatch in either direction, but some don't like it.

SunDevil

Thanks as ever @icbm - I read the wording in the manual the same way.

If I get a definitive view from Fryette, I'll post it back for prosperity 

ICBM

It's probably also worth mentioning that impedance matching only really becomes important if the amp is being overdriven, or at the very least pushed close to it - at lower volume it doesn't really matter. Presumably you're less likely to be doing that with the attenuator bypassed.

Moe_Zambeek

Their customer service is appalling, isn't it. Responsiveness, anyway.

You may get a faster response by posting on one of the Fryette threads on TGP, where they spend some time trying to keep the fanboys happy (as long as they don't ask awkward questions).

i think I'll pick one of these up this year, despite that though.

clarkefan

They run a lean business and they'll be rammed with prep for NAMM, happens every year. So bad timing mate

To be fair they've been responsive in the past to me before. Just not in January...

SunDevil

Hi @clarkefan - no doubt NAMM is an issue now, but they've been utterly useless at replying for the past 18 months

..reckon I've emailed or rang them 15 times over that period and I'm none the wiser!

..ironically, I've never had any problem getting a response from Lean Business

@moe_zambeek - TGP is a good shout - ta