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| Preamp for Burmester power amp There are some technical factors that should be taken into consideration in making this choice:1)The Bryston has very low input impedances of 6.5K unbalanced/4.5K balanced. Those values are low enough to be a problem for most tube-based source com... | |
| BEST SHIELDED XLR CABLES The website description of the wire used in Mogami Gold Studio balanced cables, which are very widely used in pro audio applications, includes the following statement, which I have no reason to doubt: Mogami 2534 should also be used where intense ... | |
| Help me pick a phono, pre and cart I find with the herron that you really don't need to go crazy on vintage Tubes. Keith has done an excellent job voicing it with the Tubes he provides. That has been my feeling as well. While in the case of various tube power amps I have used o... | |
| Cable Burn In FWIW, over the years I've noticed a fairly consistent phenomenon in these forums. Certain members seem to gravitate to threads involving phenomena that are either technically inexplicable, at least when considered in a quantitative manner (if th... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp +1 brfAnother bit of information that would be good to know is what kind of music Rob67 used in this evaluation. Volume levels tend to be set based on the average volume of the music, rather than on the volume of brief dynamic peaks. My understa... | |
| How to match preamp and power amp? Would I be correct to assume that most SS pre-amps would work well? Nearly all preamps, whether tube-based or solid state, will have no problem driving 100K. And that would certainly apply to a solid state preamp having an output impedance as l... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 can this integrated be used only as a preamp or a power amp separately ? As I mentioned in my post just a little while ago the amp does not provide pre-out jacks.Also, it could be used as a power amp, but only with its preamp section in the signal... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 It states in the manual that it's optimum operating temperature is 40º C or about 104º F. Would that indicate a sizable bias into Class A? Hi Nonoise,I can't provide much insight into your question. But FWIW an operating temperature of 40 de... | |
| Kinki Studio EX-M1 Wonderful review, Nonoise. Thanks!@jayctoy Nonoise iam like you , SIMPLE, I bet you can use it as preamp, I have Viva integrated, I use it as preamp at times, very good review.,, The problem with using a tube-based integrated amplifier having out... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Regarding the 8 db spec difference in S/N ratio between the VTPH-2 and VTPH-2A that George pointed out, I can say that one thing which has particularly amazed me about my VTPH-2 is how quiet it is. In fact when I listen with my Stax electrostatic ... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp I hope you don’t mean it’s going to be more dynamic if it’s plenty loud enough, but can’t clip the amplifier in theoretical terms, as some shonks here have tried to make out What I primarily mean is that the user will have paid for amplifier power... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp I actually had to run a splitter off the back of the tube buffer because it only has one output.So, one goes to my subwoofer amp and the other goes to the main amp.It may be wrong technically (I don`t know) but it seems to work. Whether or not tha... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Thank you, Professor.George, there are no hiccups in my calculations. Note that I referred to not being able to drive the power amp to full power, in some and perhaps many circumstances. I did not say that users in those circumstances would necess... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Yes I know Kim and Al very well, they are 200mts down the road from me in Brookvale. Awesome! It's a small world, as the saying goes. I've spoken with Al (Alan Langford) at length on the phone on one occasion, and communicated via email on seve... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Correction: In the second paragraph of my previous post when I said "For my preamp I used a DEQX HDP-5" the word "used" should be "use."Regards,-- Al |