Well after doing a reat deal of reading about this thing, it appears that plan has an issue as well.

THis unit is pretty much sonically transparent if you feed it a signal in its intended (pro level) signal range of 8-10 volts. Unfortunately, this is 4X as high as the typical output of a consumer type preamp out (like the 950), and therefore, I will be pretty much destroying its high quality SNR and probably adding some noise into my system by running it with a simple adapter cable, and so would need to put an unbalanced to balanced steup transformer to the chain. I could then use the gain pots on my Crown amps to reduce the output to get back into the ballpark of the rest of the system. Have to look into this some more.

BB