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| Preamp or DAC? kellen OP Save your money on any preamp, put it toward upgrading something else. The Benchmark Dac3 has a very good volume control, and it's output stage would put many preamps to shame..Benchmark Dac3 volume controlHGC™ Hybrid Gain Control HGC™ ... | |
| Is the preamp the “heart” of the system? The preamp May add colorations, be less pure, add distortion, etc, etc... I don’t particularly care. My desire is to have an engaging and enjoyable system that delivers an extraordinary listening experience. The “purer” the sound tends to be... | |
| classe twenty five and classe fifteen If that was true then the 15 would be 150 wpc and it's in fact 175 wpc. I don't know about the DR15. The 25 in the DR25 is short for 250w into 8ohms https://www.hifiengine.com/manual_library/classe-audio/dr-25.shtml The idle current power co... | |
| Same watts at 8 and 4 ohms? The big Krell current wattage doubling grunt is not really fully utilized here, great sounding amp still with these speakers just a bit of overkill.Apogee Duetta 2 is one speaker that doesn’t need so much an amp that can "nearly" double all the wa... | |
| Partly passive preamp? I adore my Khozmo passive (with remote option and all the resistor upgrades). It displaced my Slagle AVC. A good potentiometer will always sound less colored and more dynamic than the transformer based based passive. Here is another good one for t... | |
| Burn in discs vs. music for new speakers Skipping your meds (snakes in your head), lately? So now your a doctor??? Please leave my health out of it.I said why "some" drivers cones sag and then the voice coil scraps in the magnet gap, you can’t understand it, that your prerogative, I won... | |
| First time biasing an amp. Help. Yes it’s dangerous to you and you can take out your amp as also. It’s not something you ask how to do, it’s a job for a technician, or at minimum a good electronic hobbyist very detailed instructions solely for that piece of equipment.If you don’t... | |
| Burn in discs vs. music for new speakers And it is the same knucklehead doing it over and over. At least there’s no duplicate threads being posted, taking up space. Burn-in is real for audio’s mechanical devices, like speaker cone suspension, phono cartridge suspension ect. Not so much ... | |
| Burn in discs vs. music for new speakers But; I never saw any KEFs or Lowthers, in the shoppe, so- what do I know? You don’t. So I’m telling you. Search yourself (just Google "rotating speaker drivers") plenty to read.Many very tight magnet to coil gap drivers or heavy coned ones also, t... | |
| Krell Fpb 300 engage capacitor for tube preamp dilly3364 OP Your Bat pre being a tube should already be capacitor coupled output, therefore if you engage the Krells cap coupled input as well you'll have two caps in series, which will be much lower in uF that just using the Bat's cap alone. Th... | |
| Burn in discs vs. music for new speakers The above doesn’t include down-firing woofers, such as might be found in a Leslie, or subwoofer system. I have seen those sag. Front firing,the top of the bass driver sags/leans forward and causes polling, Kef B139’s were known for it, so were my... | |
| Same watts at 8 and 4 ohms? Like I said, impossible to exactly double. And understating the 8ohm wattage figure But these are better "close to doubling" figures down to 2ohms than any Class-D’s or even linear Mosfets with complimentary push pull output stages can achieve.The... | |
| Same watts at 8 and 4 ohms? invalid, georgehifi, Please show/indicate to me where the ’incorrect’ or ’misleading’ information is. No need to get your knickers in a knot, the only way to prove it is with independent testing, and not believing the manufactureLike I said bet ... | |
| Burn in discs vs. music for new speakers He might have new drivers to break in.As they get problems when old, the magnet/coil gap has very little clearance and can scrap/pole after a while if the drivers are not rotated 180 degrees every couple of years to counter the sag.Cheers George | |
| Partly passive preamp? fast My question: is there such a thing as a preamp which would allow me to use my other equipment but does nothing to the signal coming from the dac My product does just that, but it’s one input only, you need one of these in front of it.https:... |