I tried the LEEDH processing in my Lumin streamer last night and I must say I was mightily impressed. If I didn’t have a TT, I would have no need for a preamp anymore. It’s that good.
How to turn on Unity Gain on Pre Amp
I have a setting on my Lumin S1 streamer regarding a volume setting that I wanted to give a try. Can anyone please tell me how to set the McIntosh C2500 preamp to the suggested unity setting? I assume it would be a different term in the McIntosh manual. PS the Lumin has no remote so the McIntosh remote would still have to control the volume. Thanks
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The Lumin has no preamp. The LEEDH processor is a volume control only. And a damn good one. If a system is passive friendly, i.e. high efficiency speakers, high input impedance amp, robust source output, there's really not many preamps that can beat no preamp. But if you have a hard to drive SS amp with low input sensitivity, yes, you will need an active preamp. But even the best active preamp will not be needed in every system. |
While I don't have any experience with uber expensive preamps, I've had a few well respected ones. Here is one example. I had in house three very good active preamps and one passive. CJ Premier 17LS, Art Audio VPL, Lamm LL2. The passive was a Sonic Euphoria autoformer preamp. To my ears the SE beat all three in every aspect in my system. I have owned many transformer, autoformer, light dependent resistor, and resistor based passives. Many of these were better than preamps costing several time their retail price. @soix you are right, to each his own.
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