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| Anyone change the binding posts on Sonus Faber Extremas? Just enjoy them, if your not, it "could" be the amp that's not driving them properly. When I heard my mates ones finally sound good after a few amps tried, it was with big Krell monoblocks.Cheers George | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? Disagree George It’s your right to, but fact is digital domain volume controls in dac and cdp’s are the most transparent way of controlling the volume. But like with anything there are proviso’s. To make sure they don’t go into "bit stipping" (re... | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? George, if you look further down on the Douk page of the device, in the specification section, it states that the Alps 27 pot is 50K ohms. I have not taken mine apart, which would be easy, but I am telling you, it sounds quite invisible. htt... | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? However if someone felt that their solid state amp was a little to harsh they might want to mellow it out with a preamplifier. Yes this is what they’re good for, a tube pre "maybe" to mellow, and many solid state ones that can add some "etching" (... | |
| Merrill Audio ELEMENT 118 on Tour https://parttimeaudiophile.com/2019/05/03/merrill-audio-introduces-the-114-new-gallium-nitride-amplifier/ "Merrill Audio ELEMENT 114 delivering power across all complex loads that doubles 200 watts into 8 ohms, 400 watts into 4 ohms and 800 watts ... | |
| Tubes or stick with S/S In my last few systems I’ve had sucess using a tube pre-amp with a SS amp.You get the bottom authority of SS, with the sonic signiture of a tube.The braun, with the warmth, without the need of expensive power tubes. You get the same (if well desi... | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? Looks like I have to eat my words emcdade and say sorry, it does seem that there is/was a Perla Audio Maestro preamp "active" looking at this used one for sale (already??), but why it wasn’t on the Perla Audio website is still to be fathomed out. ... | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? George,First of all, Perla’s new preamp has both active and passive inputs. Considering I own it I SHOULD KNOW. Please show us a link?Sorry, you need to look at what the manufacture says you own, it has a cd input and two auxiliary inputs, there ... | |
| Anyone change the binding posts on Sonus Faber Extremas? wcheng2 OP leave the speakers in original condition and get some of these banana plugs and use them instead, they have a huge high pressure contact area, and are Direct-Silver plating over Beryllium copper https://addictedtoaudio.com.au/products/a... | |
| Biamping with a cd player An oscilloscope (even a very modest one) and a test tone CD or LP or function generator set to sine wave output at a few frequencies across the audio spectrum will help you get the same signal levels to your speaker terminals. "If" the amps ar... | |
| Sorry to ask this SACD question, but What equipment do I need to play the Stereo layer on a SACD You need an sacd player, even though sacd is just dsd with a flag. From memory the first Sony Play Stations from memory, played sacd and gave out the digital stream, so then it could ... | |
| Who is using their DAC as a preamp? Seems like they’re claiming that actives are better than passives They must make preamps. And quite a few. https://benchmarkmedia.com/collections/preamplifiers Cheers George | |
| Leben CS 600 and Harbeth vs Audio Note vs ATC vs JM Reynaud If it's frequency response hf peakyness and square wave ringing looks like anything like the CS300, I wouldn't. https://www.stereophile.com/content/leben-cs300-integrated-amplifier-measurements Cheers George | |
| Anyone heard Schiit's Aegir? Def Tech ProMonitor 100 Hmmmm! judging amps with cheap wall mount, surround sound 5" two ways, I wouldn't base a judgement using these. https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/2X-Definitive-Technology-ProCinema-Pro-Monitor-100-Speakers-Bookshelf-Pair-TWO/2... | |
| Class A Solid State Sound audiobrian High biased push/pull Class-A sound when all is correct, has an ease to it, almost like you need to turn it up. Complementary output transistors like Bi-Polar’s generally will punch far more current than complementary Mosfets can. If bo... |