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| best sub to match SF olympica 3 czechu82 You’ve got some nice fast bass drivers in the SF’s with the 2 x 7" W18XTR drivers, driven by fast tight amps in the Ref 600’s.The last thing you want is to mate it with a slow 15"-18" subwoofer meant for HT. Look for well reviewed fast ... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp professorsvsu OPGeorge,I found my Goldpoint and it's a 24 step SA1. If memory serves me correctly, I bought the "standard Issue" which means it's impedance is 25K ohms. I'll run the VTPH-2A through it this weekend direct line to my Bryston 4B Cu... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp What improvement is the VTPH-2A vs the VTPH-2? I don’t think there’s much from what I saw of the specs, the 2A is 100ohms lower in output impedance, (400 instead of 500), the rest seemed the same.2: http://www.herronaudio.com/images/vtph2data.pdf... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Hey, I have three times as much wattage than I need, I don’t use it. 99.9% of use don’t use our full wattage potential that we have on tap, idiots that do will need speaker repairs very quickly.So loud enough is loud enough, and there’s no penalty... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp IMO, in most circumstances if the front end of a system cannot drive a power amp to full power the system has not been configured in an optimal manner. I hope you don’t mean it’s going to be more "dynamic" if it’s plenty loud enough for the user,... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp scm Thanks for that info.There you go Al, even with .24mV MC and 87db speakers plenty of volume on tap. And the ATI amp seems to be 1.8v sensitivity.Your calculations have a hicup somewhere.Cheers George | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Awesome! It’s a small world, as the saying goes. Yeah, I don’t know if you know this but Kim (who owns Deqx) was the co/inventor of the first Fairlight Synthesizer back in 1979.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlPCpSmhRMHere's a pic of a young Ki... | |
| Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? Best vintage amps (late 70s / early 80s) under $3k? For solid state I would say Threshold, Mark Levinson to name two.And for tube I would say VTL, AR.Cheers George | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp For my preamp I used a DEQX HDP-5, which as you may be aware is produced by some of your fellow countrymen Down Under, and provides numerous DSP-based functions including improving speaker time coherence and room correction. To make that possibl... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp scm My phono cartridge is lowish on the output @ .24 mv and so far the system has everything I need So you had enough volume with the passive even though you had a very low 0.24mV MC cartiridge, you didn't have >100db horn speakers? also wh... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD It’s fatiguing to me as well as a few others I’m close with. It doesn’t matter what type of dac design George. I believe I was responding to 1graber2, unless I’m mistaken, but then anything can get some bristling, like they have a "word" trigger,... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Al, like I said before some of my customers with MC and 48db phono stages are having no problem, around 2pm on the VC, but then they have "normal" gain poweramps and speakers that are efficient.If you run one of say Nelson’s low gain F series amps... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp if he says that 20K is a bare minimum He’s quoting, like me saying 47k and 100k is even better is the figure for the Lightspeed to see, when in fact 25kohm is the min correct figure as measured and listened too by our 50 strong audio group, as th... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp You’ve got the option of 69db of gain Al also have a look at the on line manual/specs.Also with average gain of amps at around 27db and speakers that are average around 88db you certainly will have enough volume rangeMaybe not with low gain amps a... | |
| First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp Keith just emailed me, here’s what he said. "Hi George,Thanks for the note. The output capacitors of the VTPH-2 and VTPH-2A are approximately 7 uF (polypropylene) and the low frequency response is RIAA flat down to 10 Hz (within 0.1dB) into a 10k ... |