what's 'Active preamp' vs 'Passive preamp'?


I thought all preamps are passive in nature, and I heard the term 'active peamp?

what does it mean? how they are different?
eandylee

Showing 2 responses by pawlowski6132

Actually, you can make the volume attenuation even simpler - avoiding a "box" and having to add another set of interconnects. I have a pair of "shotgun" attenuators which sit between my interconnects and my amp.

Attenuator in my System
Eandylee

"Is it better because I'm skipping additional device that I don't need? or A good preamp somehow does some good thing to improve the sound quality?"

I'm of the opinion that the simpler the signal path, the better the sound MUST be, in theory. HOWEVER, practically, that doesn't always result. There are techical reasons having to do with characteristics measured by input sensitivity, impedance, etc. I can't fully understand that stuff so, I resort to trying it out and listening. It's pretty inexpensive to try...Give it a shot!