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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Catastrofe and Pubul57 hit it. I don't care how hard you try, even if you put considerable investment ($$$$$) and built a custom dedicated room you would not get anywhere near true live sound. You stand a much better chance of getting the true ess... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Paul, I'll be attending the party for a little bit this year seeking out some folks to say hello. I'll be getting over to Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse as well. There's a bottle of Silver Oak Cabernet with my name on it courtesy of friend. ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Well said George and especially Paul.Hopefully the LSA will make an appearance this Friday or Saturday at RMAF. I would love to set it up in a few different systems while I'm there. | |
| Great Lost Lps... Butterfield Blues Band and Super Sessions on the same list, cool. | |
| Great Lost Lps... The Great Lost Kinks AlbumRichard Thompson - Live (more or less) or guitar/vocal, toss up between the two.Lou Reed - Take No PrisonersBoz Scaggs (self titled, 1969)Television - Marquee Moon | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, aren't the Burson Audio buffers an FET design that does not use ICs? Their RCA version includes a volume control too. Curious as to why the balanced XLR version doesn't. Might have liked to the balanced XLR version give a spin with my Atma... | |
| All I want is The Truth, just gimme some truth... Agreed with the Pass amps as they tend to be low input impedance.I almost did get a B1 before stumbling onto The Truth. In addition I'd been toying with getting the balanced Burson Audio AB-160 buffer but it has no volume control (RCA version does... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Wasn't one of the active buffer designs posted on the DIY forum a tube version? I recall seeing the one from Nelson Pass as well. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Interesting comment on the buffered approach Dave. I believe when John Chapman re-introduced the Tap-X with the Slagle autoformers the remote allowed you to choose from buffered or unbuffered (only on the multi-input models though). In his testing... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Bill, I'd certainly love to hear those Sound Labs in a good room set-up. I have heard them at audio shows and once at a local Chicago area dealers home. The latter was a very good experience, but not ideal IMO.Your point you made in your other pos... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I agree, the issue of transparency is more black and white. I think it is as simple as this:1. The Bolero test can indicate if your system is passive friendly.2. The Bolero test can indicate the level of transparency a preamp possesses, active or ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I don't know of one resistor based passive that doesn't vary the output impedance based on the attenuation level. I think it is just the nature of the beast and as Andrew mentioned the LDR design is not immune to this (Side Note: The Truth Preamp ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Great post Dave.Regarding the allegation of "forwardness," assuming that we are not talking about strident aggressiveness, the quality of forwardness in a top component is often a good thing in the sense that the piece sounds more alive, faster, d... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? That was Paul's prototype of a battery-powered, solid state pre right? Not a Dude. Out of curiosity, did you ever hear the LSA side to side with that entity? Are you speaking from sonic memory?It was the Pre-1.5 battery powered preamp and no, I ne... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? The LSA plays the instruments more up front and forward - and I mean all of them! The instruments play on the same plane at the front of the speaker. Some may like this. However, to others it is a lack of 3D perspective or depth.Bill, was this tru... |