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| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Honashagen, some questions:1)Are you using balanced or unbalanced connections between the Oppo and the Pass? I suspect balanced would be preferable, as I alluded to earlier.2)Have you tried both the 4 db and 14 db gain settings of the Pass?3)Are y... | |
| Yesteryears' expensive speakers compared to modern moderately expensive speakers IMO both possibilities should be pursued, within your ca. $8K to $12K price range. I would not rule out 10 to 15 year old speakers on the basis of generalities, such as general notions about the technological advances which may have been made sinc... | |
| Allnic, Herron or Tavish choice? Your PAM-3 preamp has a line-level input impedance specified as "10K minimum." 10K is much too low to be a suitable load for the Herron phono stage (Keith Herron recommends 50K or more, although 30K seems to work ok for some users). I have my doub... | |
| Well now... 400$ Mark Levinson amp new... Looks like they did a pretty good job of copying the Mark Levinson logo. The similarities end just about there, of course. For example the ML-2 was a monoblock, while the supposed clone is a stereo amp. Each ML-2 monoblock weighed 65 pounds (130 p... | |
| What is an excellent power cable? I’ll second the Signal Cable recommendation Mofimadness provided above. Based on recommendations by him (thanks, Mofi!) as well as numerous others in past threads here I chose Signal Cable power cords for my CD player (a Bryston BCD-1) and for my ... | |
| Bi-amping vs. bridging ... should I be using the Front High or Front Wide for the second channel for the tweets? I have no experience with av pre/pros, and perhaps someone who does will chime in and address this question. But as I see it what matters, assuming that the ... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Jinjuku 4-27-2018Question is, do "Audiophile" Ethernet cables make any difference/ improvement in sound quality? I stated as follows in a post dated 4-24-2018: As I’ve said in a number of past threads, the existence of differences does not necessa... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Jinjuku 4-27-2018 What about all the other operations going on? CPU caching operations, Interrupts, DMA transfers, Memory Paging, SMPS? This is why I don't buy into Al's argument. With all this going on what ever variation of cable is going to b... | |
| Bi-amping vs. bridging P.S: Although it probably won’t be an issue, especially if your preamp (or whatever component is driving the amp) is solid state rather than tube-based, a point to be aware of regarding biamping is that since the preamp will be driving two amp cha... | |
| Bi-amping vs. bridging Using an amplifier in bridged mode causes it to "see" a load impedance equal to half of the speaker’s actual impedance. The Motion 20’s nominal impedance of 4 ohms would be seen by a bridged amp as 2 ohms. I doubt that your amp could handle a 2 oh... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Jinjuku, to clarify a key point in several of my previous posts, the "RF noise" I have been referring to, that might bypass the ethernet interface and buffer memory in the receiving device and affect the timing of D/A conversion and might also aff... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Acepilot71 4-27-2018 May I ask guys with The Ear to describe or qualify the difference you notice depending on the Ethernat cable?I suggest two categories:- Quality of a music- Quality of a soundFirst one relates to the purity of the instruments, ... | |
| Delete "Cable Snake Oil Anecdote" Thread! @Sallyoil, just ignore that thread. No one can predict with any kind of certainty which of the suggestions that have been made in your own thread on your power socket question would be the best choice. And I'm very doubtful that you would be going... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? Benzman 4-25-2018 I don’t understand why folks that choose not to believe in differences in cabling actually debate with those of us that can detect differences in sound quality. That seems to be a perennial question in debates such as this. And o... | |
| Esoteric PO3 Transport XLR Output Hi George,The photo in this ad shows the markings more clearly.Best regards,-- Al |