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| Help finding a simple but high quality buffer or preamp for remotely controlling volume mitch2 Hello all. I am looking for a simple yet high quality buffer or preamp that I can use for remote volume control in the event I decide to purchase a DAC without an internal volume control. Why buffered?? do you have power amp/s that have... | |
| High gain preamps [30db +] High gain preamps [30db +] Why? would somebody/anybody!! want to reduce the sources signal level down to a miniscule amount with the volume control (yes it passive even in a an active preamp), only then to boost the **** out of it with huge gain ... | |
| Is it my amp or my speakers? Looking at the way he balances his speakers I would suspect them. This model has a rising bottom end and a falling top end, both together will make it sound tilted in the favour of a darker sound. https://www.stereophile.com/images/718TekIMfig3.jp... | |
| Tube-based DACS: Positive? Negative? Your correct it does use tube rectifiers in the dac The BorderPatrol DAC uses a R2R DAC chip with no over-sampling and no digital filtering fed from a very sophisticated choke input, tube rectified power supply to produce one of the most natural,... | |
| Tube-based DACS: Positive? Negative? davkobza Tube-based DACS: Positive? Negative? Negative,If you want to color the sound, do it with a tube pre or buffer, that way you can take them out if you feel you want no coloration. Even better get a Schiit Freya pre that way you have 3 soun... | |
| When turning off car karzuu Why is there like a bang only when turning off the car. Most car stereo’s have cap coupled amps some even with relay outputs, this could only happen legit if your stereo or amps are direct coupled, then you can get a dc offset thump.Chee... | |
| From Audio Research ref cd player to what ? (Cd Transport, streamer, Dac.....?) @georgehifi I have also seen the Jay’s cdt2 mk2 Yeah it's nice, but to me expensive. And I did query the availability and price of the laser, and from suppliers like the ones usual on ebay, in case they go belly up next week/year.To me there's n... | |
| Schiit CD Transport on the way soon. Schiit's having a great year. Apparently a very good year, it goes to show Schiit make a great sounding products that are far cheaper than the more expensive stuff which has magnetic appeal to the "glitz queens" that love to put their equipment... | |
| From Audio Research ref cd player to what ? (Cd Transport, streamer, Dac.....?) I have sold my Ref cd7 as I was willing to upgrade. I thought buying a new dac with a new transport I realize now that lots of transport are available and that finally I just have 200 cd’s or so and the investment on a transport is maybe not that ... | |
| Connecting a DAC directly to an amp? Connecting a DAC directly to an amp? The very best:Using my MSB Discrete R2R dac's digital domain volume control direct into most of the power amps I have, sounds so much more transparent, detailed and dynamic, than any active preamp (tube or S... | |
| Schiit CD Transport on the way soon. Knowing Schiit, you'll get the basics, even the looks, and the larger manufacturing percentage costs will be spent in making sound good. And that's ok with me.Cheers George | |
| Help connecting my AMPS to my ML Sequel II's Not the kind of amp for these speaker, all ML ESL's have a very hard load for amps, here what Stereophile said about them in their measurements. I'll add they are also 1ohm in the highs while the overall graph suggests a rating of 4 ohms rather t... | |
| hypex users how do you like them? Listening to a pair of 600w/4ohm NC500 equipped monoblocks, same as what the the Belcanto Ref600 monoblocks use with "smd supplies", which I didn’t mind a while back so long as they drove the easy load that had a very benign 6ohm load in the upper... | |
| Thiel Owners This new video From Ayre Acoustics and John Atkinson of Stereophile is just in time to explain why the CS3.7 won’t be liked by many amps, "especially bridged ones." And not only because it's closer to 2ohm rather than 4ohmIt’s got the discussed "e... | |
| Thiel Owners "The vertical bi-amp will not work with the Thiel CS3.7 since it only has 1 set of speaker inputs." Check out bettlemania's system on the virtual systems ,he bi-wired his 2.4's . Yes it's very easy to do, "if" the owner or a friend has a li... |