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| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? I also tried TEO s overpriced passive Yes over priced for just 24 switched resistor position, do you know what value it was? 10 20 50 or 100k, and if it was a series, ladder or shunt switch resistor passive? As of yet I can’t find out, I’ll look ... | |
| MAC Autoformers? Saying that autoformers are a fix for a flawed amplifier design as Stanwal said is in my view just ignorant. I don’t think Stanwal meant that, they didn’t purposely go out and design a flawed amp. I believe he meant that with an autoformer an am... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Resistors have all that stuff too! NOWHERE NEAR IN THE SAME RATIOS AS A TVC. Last time now go away. | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Open your eyes what else Kosst, you've got inductance and capacitance in those TVC's on top of a mile of ultra thin wire with your resistance. Now go away, you are stalking again. | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? analogluvr589 posts07-28-2018 11:01amBut as I mentioned previously I tried a passive with the Herron but preferred the active Yes you did, but you said you tried it with a TVC (a transformer based passive), this you needed to say. As if TVC ’s h... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? George is consistently pushing these passive threads for that exact reason. And for someone who uses the same high gain Herron phono stage as this one. Here in case you missed it is this users report on utilising all the gain from the Herron sour... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? I actually push direct to amp more because it’s the best, if they have a volume control, if you bother to do your homework, which you clearly don’t. The only time passives are mentioned is as the next best option is if the source has no volume, bu... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? I have no doubt that Ralph is just in protection mode for his product. Any source that has been designed to give out 2v has been done so to be done to do so in it's most linear state, you would be a fool to do otherwise, unlike what Ralph will hav... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Who said all these sources or preamps are running non linear, stop making things up out of nothing. | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? If a power amp has an input sensitivity of say 1v input to make it reach full wattage output (eg: clipping) There is no need for the preceding stage (whether it be a preamp or direct from the source) to put out any more than say 2v so long as it's... | |
| MAC Autoformers? roxy54 Did you perform this test? Yes I had a customer trade a pair in, he tried them on his Lamm 1.1’s and didn’t like them, I put them on my very good solid state amps with my ML ESL speakers to see what they did, and it made them sound like o... | |
| Any one try the new Synergistic Research BLUE UEF Duplex receptacle? What utter ruuub ish. +1 Short and sweet, luv it. | |
| Which DAC as a preamp? Class D really benefits from a Class A input stage....solid state or valve. All amps I know ss or tube have Class-A input stages, I've yet to see one with class-A/BCheers George | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? @mrdecibel Simply: With the sources feeding them, preamps active or passive giving out UP TO a clean 2v to an amp that only needs 1v in to give it’s rated output before clipping, there NO USE at all for those same preamps active or passive to be ... | |
| MAC Autoformers? That is the first time I’ve heard a claim that the autoformer was a hindrance to better performance; Why hinder the performance of a well designed solid state amp with an autoformer, unless it was a bad designed one to start with. A simple test i... |