dracule1
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| Preamps waste of money? Grannyring, my bad. It's hard to interpret the intent of some posts. I enjoyed reading your Dude thread. | |
| Preamps waste of money? Tmsorosk, I would gave to disagree. When I installed the goldpoint attenuators, the sound became more full with increased harmonic detail and dynamics. It wasn't warm in the classical tube sense, but there was less tilting of the sound toward brig... | |
| Preamps waste of money? I could be wrong, but most integrated have active preamp built into it, and they usually use cheap pots, not stepped attenuators. And integrated usually have switching capability for multiple inputs and even balance control...all of these degrades... | |
| Preamps waste of money? I would have to agree with Ralph of Atma-Sphere..."If you have the passive control in the amp then you can make it work and it will be difficult to find a preamp that will do better." This coming from a guy who designed the MP-1, one of the best t... | |
| Preamps waste of money? No need to get defensive Grannyring. I didn't say it was a waste of money for your system. I've read your thread on the Dude preamp and almost bought one. BTW, I have a stepped resistor attenuator in my amp, not a volume pot...a big difference in ... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Preinka,"you have to buy very good preamplifier (usually for $$$) to not to waste the money on it....."If I can get this level of performance using $160 stepped volume control, a preamp is a waste of money no matter what the cost. Granted I have n... | |
| Why don't you like Mageplanar speakers? Charles1dad, I completely agree with your comment about J. Valin's opinion having no bearing on your own experiences. Reviewers' opinions do not impress me that much; they have their own tastes in sound, and their systems are different than yours.... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Precisely charlsdad. I used to own a modded Threshold SA-30 class A amp. It did not have the thinness (still miss it), but it didnt have the harmonic richness of a good tube amp. I always feel I'm missing something with SS. Of course tube amplific... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Oh yea, I also had the Hovland HP-100 in my system.I also auditioned the Ayre KXR preamp at a dealer. I guess I'm really not into active SS preamps. There always seems to be some residual thinness to the sound from a SS preamp, no matter how expen... | |
| Preamps waste of money? I've also tried DACT attenuator in an amp I owned long ago, but I wasn't as successful. For some reason, the Goldpoint works exceptionally well in my current amp. | |
| Preamps waste of money? In my system: Tap X autoformer preamp (own, very pure clean sound with exceptional high freq), LDR preamp (borrowed), Audio Research Ref 5 (borrowed), Gary Dodd battery powered tube buffer preamp (borrowed, very very good sound), Audible Illusions... | |
| Preamps waste of money? Exactly, I have a Goldpoint passive stepped attenuator inside the amp. I haven't come across any preamp outside the amp that is better. | |
| Preamps waste of money? Thanks for your opinions on this matter. I hear decreased dynamics using a passive preamp no matter how careful you are about impedance matching and interconnect length (loss of oomph as one of you put it). This was until I placed the stepped atte... | |
| Capacitor log Mundorf Silver in Oil May be Fredrick at Duelund can best answer this question. Has anyone tried cryogenically treatring the CAST cap, either for speaker crossover or electronics? I have them in my speakers and electronics, amp and DAC. I was thinking of doing this but... | |
| World's best Pre-amp for $10K and above? Can I have the 10 minutes of my life back reading this useless thread? As someone else pointed out, the OP has done this thing before with another "end all" solution to audio. I wished I recognized his handle earlier. |