Yes, I believe so. I have done that before with the Aksa lender which is the single rail version of the Melbourne (and I have completely bypassed the Edcor as well). It works fine and indeed, the Melbourne core (the amp in Yarra) was desgined to drive the 600ohm load that the Edcore presents.
Yarra M2X Direct Drive Test
Hi Meanie,
I just tested it out - connected the Yarra to the M2X with the input module removed and used a cap to bypass the input/output (bolts 2 & 4). I used a 15uF film cap that I had on hand (simpy made a loop and bolted it on the brass standoff). If you wanted to, you could solder it to the two little holes on the PCB that are used for a jumper. Technically, the Edcor is 600ohms and so a cap like a nice audio grade 220uF Nichicon Muse or Elna Silmic II should be used here for the deepest bass response. However, I tested that by hand holding a 470uF Silmic to the pins to bypass the 15uF film cap and could not hear a difference in bass. It could be that the impedance is much higher than 600ohms, maybe 2k evern? In any case, it works and sounds great. Verified to be good for this application.
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Hi Meanie,
I just tested it out - connected the Yarra to the M2X with the input module removed and used a cap to bypass the input/output (bolts 2 & 4). I used a 15uF film cap that I had on hand (simpy made a loop and bolted it on the brass standoff). If you wanted to, you could solder it to the two little holes on the PCB that are used for a jumper. Technically, the Edcor is 600ohms and so a cap like a nice audio grade 220uF Nichicon Muse or Elna Silmic II should be used here for the deepest bass response. However, I tested that by hand holding a 470uF Silmic to the pins to bypass the 15uF film cap and could not hear a difference in bass. It could be that the impedance is much higher than 600ohms, maybe 2k evern? In any case, it works and sounds great. Verified to be good for this application.
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