agear
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| Review: Tube Research Labs Dude Tube preamp Bug, try the TRL cords. They are relatively affordable and very good. The Dude, like most TRL gear, is less cord sensitive than other equipment I have owned presumably due to the quality of the power supply.... | |
| Review: Fried Products FRIED Studio 7 Speaker Thanks for the thoughtful words Larry. It is sad that they are gone. Judging from much of the thread verbiage in Audiogon, the audio landscape has become fractured, contentious and narcissistic. We are in need of more grounded, paternal audio infl... | |
| Review: AudioMachina Maestro Ti-200 Speaker Great and meticulous review. I share your bias about 1st order x-overs and the importance of an inert cabinet. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "What you should do Grannyring to see if the Dude is artificially giving depth, is what I preach all along, put your CDP straight into your poweramp (Bolero Test) no preamp. Put on a quite cd so you can then ascertain a good level of cd to play, t... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? As George just stated, the Bolero test is a level test only, not a tool for system analysis. Grannyring got people excited with his description of the 2D sound staging of the LSA. What followed was philosophical posturing, semantics, and the infam... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Tvad, you logic regarding transparency is confusing. A passive is not a gold standard for transparency due to its circuitry. So, then we have to rely on the mythical Bolero Test. I am frankly amused that it even has a name. Non-audiophiles would h... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Tvad, that's fair. Technical limitations.Pubul57, I was actualy asking about the LSA vs the Atma-sphere. You have two distinct systems and was curious about the strengths and weaknesses of each. Why the two systems? | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, it does not make sense to state that system synergy manifests as 2D or 3D. Please explain."What you should do Grannyring to see if the Dude is artificially giving depth, is what I preach all along, put your CDP straight into your poweramp ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Hmmm. An explosion of words. I will add to it with my own verbal diarrhea.I have a few questions:1. Pubul57, you started this thread (a good one a might add), and you are in a good position to speak to the attributes of passive and active pre-amps... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "found the LSA made my favorite recordings all share that same forwardness for all the instruments. In other words, every recording began to take on the same personality with all the music coming from a plane at the front of the speaker. The whole... | |
| Pure Vinyl/Amarra The Netsend option does exist as you describe Svenerik, but it requires extra hardware and thus defeats the purpose. | |
| Pure Vinyl/Amarra Yeah, it does sound better (to my surprise). There was better body (or saturation) along with slightly better detail. Try the demo (you can demo Airfoil as well).... | |
| Pure Vinyl/Amarra Hi Neville. Nope, still need Airfoil. Its only a $25 program so don't hesitate. Amarra used to have the same requirement. I know they are working on it but was told it won't happen any time soon.... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Keep us posted Bill. That should be interesting. I am still interested in hearing it at some point just for the sake of keeping an open mind.Strong work Tony on your review of the LSA and Truth passives. I saw that Stereophile gave the LSA a comme... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Hmmm. From an engineering standpoint, the DMS opinion on system requirements makes sense to me and lines up with the logic as applied to passives in general. Your experience contradicts his and another TRL owner how has heard it. System/ear etiolo... |