georgehifi
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| Mcintosh 452 vs Pass Labs XA 30.5 On these fairly easy to drive speakers, both will work fine, but my money’s on the Pass for a better sound at "normal. And on harder to drive speakers the Pass all the way every day. But if you really want to get loud with these speakers they are ... | |
| Anyone know where I can get a Wadia 861 board? If you were in Australia I'd have a look as I've been inside these a bit doing mods.Cheers George | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? If a passive has a buffer stage, is it still a passive? No! If the signal goes through an active circuit it’s an active preamp with no gain.Cheers George | |
| Looking for a warm sweet speaker Looking for a warm sweet speaker Can't go past a pair of Quad 57's for this sort of ask.Cheers George | |
| Leave preamp on all day, off at night Turning tubes on and off helps the tubes last longer. I believe this is particularly true at turn on when you do what I used to do with my tube amps.That is, I bring the heaters (filaments) on first, so the plates and everything warms up, then wi... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? When you they want to know several things about what you listen with, so the passive preamp can have its impedance matched to your particular system. If using a ladder network (no.2), the best, this is a bit of a sales gimmick, a 10kohm passive ... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. dweller Was just listening to the Moody Blues "In Search of the Lost Chord". My word, what a lousy sounding album. I wonder if there was a mastering engineer involved in its creation. I loved this album, and have two or three version one being t... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Easy to do simply on a scope using test bench cd's, just a flat across the board 30db channel separation with resistance across left and right channels, but to get it follow like a cartridge takes quite a bit more complexity.Bit of a channel separ... | |
| Impedance Matching Question Nice find, now that looks good I think, seems to be tube input with ss output great combo to get low output impedance and high input impedance. 100k input impedance and 1ohm!!!! output impedance, can be used as a unity gain buffer, or preamp with ... | |
| Impedance Matching Question Polk Audio RTi A3 is on closeout for $240/pr, so not much more than the cable. Yeah definitely the money shot is for the speakers, how come we don’t get those kind of deal down here in Oz, it really ****** me off. Enjoy!Cheers George | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? It must be very sad to believe that everything we find attractive in this hobby is an artefact or coloration Ah yes, but not sad, just understandable, As I said this was only with old stuff Beatles, Beach Boys ect. that was recorded and voiced wi... | |
| Impedance Matching Question koestner The Burson Buffer has not been made for quite a while now, and are hard to find. However Burson has this ingenious RCA cable with a small solid state buffer built into it. It is powered by 5 Volts DC. It will help with most any impedanc... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? folkfreak Having said all that spinning vinyl has turned out to be so much more rewarding these last few days Funny you should mention vinyl, I also love to listen to it now and then especially on old stuff like Beatles ect which kills the digit... | |
| Pre amps cost vs. value ... what I discovered last month. I agree on part of your post, but the other part???? but it’s clear folks are really getting taken to the cleaners on pre amps. This is true, when many of todays sources have volume control, output stages as good sometimes better that some of thes... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? I believe that there is a hint, of seeing/hearing the forest through the trees perhaps?.Cheers George |