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| HT Bypass on preamp I don't see your setup being any different with unity gain or "true" bypass. What you are describing is the advantage of having 2 outputs - one amplified and one not. This situation relates to integrated amps but would be pretty rare for a preamp,... | |
| HT Bypass on preamp Setting unity gain is a simply way to do HT Bypass and is therefore very common. In that case the volume is control by the receiver but the direct connection to the power amp is from the preamp circuits. As soix says, you can create your own HT By... | |
| HT Bypass on preamp Some preamps just set the volume level to unity gain and pass the HT signal through the normal signal path. Other preamps direct the HT inputs directly to the outputs, bypassing the preamp circuitry. You need to look at each preamp to learn exactl... | |
| Converting LP to digital. Advice please... There has been discussion about the fact that declicking a digitized file can damage the underlying music and therefore some people decide to not try to declick their files. Personally, I think the data is already damaged by the click and trying t... | |
| Converting LP to digital. Advice please... lewm - Removing clicks and pops indeed changes the data. But, I would argue, the clicks and pops have already done that. Getting the signal back to as close to the original as possible has to be better than leaving the click or pop in. All you hav... | |
| Converting LP to digital. Advice please... Vinyl Studio is a great program for this process. It can record the data from USB or import a file. You can split the files and do various cleanup operations. One of its main advantages is that it does lookup of album data for several databases in... | |
| Too Much Power? bo1972 - Please take you off topic discussion someplace else. This looks like a blatant ad for your project. | |
| Percentage of mp3 vs FLAC on Tidal? jclctr - Can you give some examples? What are you using for the player - desktop app, android, ios phone? | |
| Percentage of mp3 vs FLAC on Tidal? You might try the Tidal Desktop app just to confirm that you are receiving flac files. | |
| Percentage of mp3 vs FLAC on Tidal? It plays as HIFi for me using the desktop app on WIndows. In the US. | |
| Replacement Sonus Faber grille strings? I checked with my local dealer. For my Cremona, the cost would be $1,000 for two grill assemblies. Ridiculous. So, we tighten up our strings by simply pulling on them and re-knotting them. On the Cremona, the string is knotted at the bottom and d... | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... Erik - You have to be a little careful of the hydrogenaudio comments. Many on there are so caught up on their methodologies and rules that I wonder sometimes whether they actual listen to music. I only have a few HDCD, but they are very good quali... | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... As I understand it, Microsoft bought the rights to HDCD and they elected to not do anything with it other than have decoding in Windows Media Center. As far as I know, they still own it. I am pretty sure that all the current implementations are ju... | |
| VPI Industries reveals Shinola x VPI table. pryso - The company did not use that phrase, but people did. The original form, as I understand it, often included the reference to shoes, put got shortened over time. It was definitely a put-down, not a marketing campaign. | |
| VPI Industries reveals Shinola x VPI table. The colloquialism "You don’t know s--- from Shinola, that’s why your shoes don’t shine" was a reference to Shinola shoe polish, a standard in American shoes from around 1900 until they went out of business in about 1960. Apparently when the head o... |