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| Passive Pre - No Regrets? Hi Gmood1, I don't agree with your statement for several reasons, not the least of which is that equipment exists that seems to lack 'tone control' qualities and in fact is able to fool jundiced audiophiles. This is a forum for high-end, not mid-f... | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? "Still waiting, but maybe they'll arrive today. Atmasphere. let me ask you a question. If you could design a passive preamp, choose an appropriate source with just the right output impedance, select the cabling to be used (for appropriate electric... | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? "Yes I agree, I suppose it is how one looks at it. I'm not designer like yourself,but don't you use something inside your equipment to filter noise or keep it to a minimum? Capacitors or something? If you did then your amplifiers or preamps would ... | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? "Also from what I've read the PLC with autoformers doesn't electrically isolate input from output like a TVC. This means you'll have less noise filtered with the PLC."In theory then, that would be a good thing.FWIW, the task of the volume control ... | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? "I had to laugh at Mr.Sphere's comments about passives not being able to drive the cables... that's a pretty broad statement. With the right source some of these passives(TVCs) will spank an active all day long driving cables. Being he designs and... | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? Hi Herman, Obviously I don't hide who I am :) I also cannot escape facts- and I outlined them above. Yes- a few inches of wire (often unshielded) can be a *lot* different from a few feet of cable. If you've not tried it, then do so! You will see w... | |
| Passive Pre - No Regrets? One of the more important functions of a line section is control of the interconnect. That is why you see so many posts on this thread preferring the (allegedly) more colored sound of various preamps over passives. Passives cannot control intercon... | |
| Could someone recommend a next amp upgrade ZU has an Atma-Sphere S-30. We have a set of Druids....I think the M-60 really does the job on the speaker though. Impossible to clip the amps, and the ability to compete with a jet engine :) From Black Sabbath to Mahler the system plays anything ... | |
| 12AT7 tubes Some of the recent JJs have been a bit hummy. If you have a circuit that has DC filaments they are a decent tube otherwise. | |
| 12AT7 tubes EIs are not bad sounding tubes. No-one seems to have mentioned the Electro Harmonix tube either, although if pcied for low microphonics, is a very nice sounding tube, even if it is a newly manufactered tube.Often the Chinese 12AT7 gets denigrated ... | |
| Contrast/compare 50W tube amps http://www.high-endaudio.com/FWIW His info on the M-60 is based on an amp that was built about 7 years ago. | |
| Current mode vs voltage mode Hi Bob, -you got it backwards- the higher output impedance amplifiers behave as 'current sources' rather than 'voltage sources'.Actually the two concepts are a bit misleading and counter-intuitive. A low impedance source is so because it can make ... | |
| Tube amplifiers that really drive MBL 101E's The MA-2 is full power to 1 Hz. The impedance curve of the MBL has no severe dips and is actually an easy load as far as the MA-2 is concerned. | |
| Recommendation for Computer/Digital Hi Ghunter, yes, the jitter issue is only during playback. On our system we buffer the playback from the hard drive through memory. The idea was to create a dedicated transport- thus the zero latency configuration (we found on Windows that the sys... | |
| Recommendation for Computer/Digital For audio, Linux is your best setup. You can configure the kernal for zero latency, which is something you cannot do with other platforms. Then use 'CD Paranoia' to read the CD onto the hard drive. Playing the CD back at that point you will have a... |