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| Straight wire and gain linestage? Hi, Pubul. I found your thread where you talked about the K & K. I found the Prommitheus. It's probably what I should get. I thought I should check out gain stages first. I'm sort of a doubter now on the passives. But the tvc might work. Lynne... | |
| Straight wire and gain linestage? Bob, Did you mean LEAD? Lynne | |
| Straight wire and gain linestage? I probably need some gain. The output impedence is high on my CD player and input impedence low on amp. I also need a fair amt of input impedence on linestage. I've got an old preamp on the system right now with 33 K ohm input impedence. Seems to ... | |
| Selector switches? Thanks, everyone. Found the Grayhill. Will check out the others. Lynne | |
| Selector switches? Yeah. Thanks. I'll check it out. Lynne | |
| Getting back to members on passive vs active lines Addendum: I get it. Output impedence is a characteristic of frequency and is effected by components ie tubes or ss components. Hope I stated that correctly. | |
| Getting back to members on passive vs active lines Rodman99999, Thanks. I found the review/test results on the Cary. I haven't found a review yet on the 7600 but it would be interresting to get measurements on it. I did remove the Rothwells from the preamp's inputs and I think maybe I won't need t... | |
| Getting back to members on passive vs active lines It's a Harman Kardon HD7600ll made between '90-'92. I bought it like new in the box from a member a few months ago. It was highly regarded but I couldn't afford it back then. It ran circles around my Simaudio Moon Equinox--made it sound and look l... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Gregm, ok. Yes, the amps spec is given as 1.1V@22K ohm input impedence. On the CDP, if you meant,"did I read it wrong", apparently not. The HD7600ll's output impedence is given as LINE- 2.0V@10k ohms. I thought the other player was the same, but n... | |
| Are passive preamps better? I think it is well established that I don't know anything, but if the analogue components could control the cable, then we could not hear the cable. But there is a whole industry based on the fact that cables have a sound. I never understood the r... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Good thing I re-read. Atmasphere's discussion of a preamps inability to control the cable. I reconnected the preamp, but this time I ran the variable output to the preamp in. The sound is improved over the fixed output. Maybe that's because the si... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Gregm, dpac wasn't using a passive linestage; he was using a tube preamp. It would not surprise me at all if I don't understand how impedence works. I'm a gifted dyslexic and I struggle. I go by instinct, and I'm learning as much as I can from you... | |
| Are passive preamps better? I found that I had an IC about a ft shorter than I was using. So I tried going direct to amp again. With shorter IC I lost the distrtion components that were present with the longer IC. I also discovered that the CD player's volume control is moto... | |
| Are passive preamps better? Thanks, Pipedream, for info. It probably is the hard drive, but my sister and brother have the latest H/K 75W AVR's, and that sound is also amazing as Dpac996 describes. I don't know if I'm upgrading to stay ahead of them or just to keep up. The l... | |
| Are passive preamps better? The Audio Research LS-7 linestage preamp must be an old dog, huh? They're asking around $650 including shipping. I guess you get what you pay for. Lynne |