clio09
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| Who is using passive preamps and why? Tvad, thanks for the invite. I'll most likely be heading out for the Brooks Berdan event May 22. Monrovia is not that far from Burbank from what I recall. I'll contact you as the date nears. | |
| Room treatment success story Treating the reflection point at which the sound from the right channel speaker hits the left side wall (and vice versa) may actually be more beneficial than treating the first reflection point. FWIW, from what I've read and experienced, diffusion... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Paul, I also heard the Pass B1 at RMAF that year we met up. I would have tried one sooner, but its not balanced and I already have too many single ended passives lying around.I'd love to hear the VRE-1. Next time I go to one of the LA/Orange Count... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? The VRE-1 is not a true passive, it is a hybrid design with a JFET buffer stage that eliminates impedance matching issues. Great concept along the lines of the Pass B1 (JFET buffer) and the Bent Tap-X (user selectable buffer outputs). | |
| What cables to replace Highwire's with? Maybe these are the next logical step for you:http://www.skywireaudio.com/Don Palmer's newer design. | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Paul,Transformer based using Electra Print nickel core copper wound transformers. I was going to do balanced, but single ended for now until its fully tested (just easier to start). If all goes well I may build some more and sell a few here and th... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? The manual for the RM-10 has a nice discourse on cable voodoo, not to mention ground loop hum. I'm going to finish building my passive today. Sanded down, drilled all holes, and painted the chassis yesterday. Today its plugging in parts and wiring... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? I am not aware of one single amplifier manufacturer that designs a matching passive preamp to compliment their amplifiers.Three manufacturers were mentioned in this thread: Roger Modjeski - Music Reference, Jack Elliano - Electra Print, and Jeffre... | |
| Thin speaker cable I miss Sean. | |
| An Experiment in Speaker Placement Now that you've tried the Cardas method, try the Sumiko Master Set method. I find the results better in my room set-up using Master Set. Also, the Audio Physics method works great if you are using long wall speaker placement. | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Well you would think with minimal parts and no active circuitry (non-buffered designs) a passive would be low maintenance, but I've run into a few scenarios where owners of both Sonic Euphoria and Promitheus expressed issues related to noise/hum. ... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Dave Slagle is selling them too now:http://intactaudio.com/atten.htmlI spoke to Jeffrey about redoing my Slagle box. He is very detailed and does great wood work. I still may pursue this with him but for now need to finish my balance passive proje... | |
| Why hasnt yamamoto A-o11 gotten more love? Does test equipment hear the same way we do? About the only benefit of test equipment is that it has no bias or opinion. Other than that its not human so it technically can't hear things from a human perspective.Case in point: tube designs are gen... | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Jeffrey uses the Slagle autoformers in his designs. Another person who on his site specifically states what we have probably stated an number of times here and in other passive threads:http://www.jeffreywjackson.com/preamplifiers.htm | |
| Who is using passive preamps and why? Paul,After listening to the RM-10 MkII for the last few days I'm beginning to believe Roger is the genius he thinks he is ;) I haven't even tube swapped yet and I may not. I may try my hand at building one of his PITB's, but after I build my balan... |