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| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? charles1dad Johndoe,It may be better to run the Vivaldi DAC straight to the power amplifier for you. Strange how this seems to be discounted because it doesn’t meet someone else’s expectations. Very strange behavior. Give it a rest Charles, sa... | |
| Best Sounding Passive Preamp Prometheus is a TVC passive (Transformer Volume Control).http://www.audiocircle.com/image.php?id=7513 These tend to have a "signature" sound, and are not as transparent to the source as a potentiometer, ldr, or switched resistor based passives. So... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Well put jareko, enjoy your literary skills. Hope you hang around. Cheers George | |
| Threshold S300 Power Amp Unfortunately it suffered from a very wicked turn-off transient, about a minute or so after the power switch was turned off. I had the S300 Stasis MkII with optical bias, it never had this problem, a few others dry caps and such, but I fixed all ... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? george, are you referring to the ICs or speaker cables? IC’s, I have a bi-amped active to the bass and passive to the highs, all driven from the source By the way, my (limited) experience with speaker cables is consistent with your remarks about ... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Well written and explained, your plus’s for going direct are all expected improvements, especially the transparency reference (ability to distinguish artificial reverb).Any negatives are possible the result of the source it’s self, or maybe the ty... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Yes two different sound will be presented.1: Either better with preamp, and not so without, which means to me, don't like the sound of the source.2: Or better without preamp not so good with, which means to me don't like the sound of the preamp.Ch... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? I know the earlier Ring Dac chips were SE in output, in these the analog SE outputs after the chip sounded better, due to one less amplification stage in the signal path that wasn’t needed. (just like a preamp)Cheers George | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Use a half dozen different DACs to drive an amplifier and you'll have 6 different sonic characters, they are not straight wire with gain. Correct, why pile one on top of the other, just get the right one to start with.. I need to take in t... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? The Vivaldi driving a 600 ohm load is commendable, no denying that fact. The VTL MB 450 has an input impedance of 42K. So the question is which option provides the best sound quality This is where things fall apart, the "best" to me is like a p... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? It’s surprising how definitive people can be based on measurements of components they do not own, and may never have actually heard? Only when things are dismissed, and the opposite said, too much of this goes on, and many have been shown the wro... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? Even a broken watch can be right twice a day ;-) Your all heart Sunshine. Remind me to give you a ***** ****** one day.Cheers George | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? BTW this is from the Stereophile review and bench tests of the Vivaldi, from the reviewer Michael Fremer who owns the darTZeel NHB-18ns preamplifier. and darTZeel NHB 458 monoblocks. Looks like he had no issues going direct to the monoblock amps... | |
| Running DCS Vivladi DIRECT? These Vivaldi tested figures don’t lie, can’t see the forest through the trees? It's not possible that a tube/capacitor output coupled preamp can drive 10mts of cables with an amp at the end, better than that tested output stage of the Vivaldi. " ... | |
| Replacing my Krell FPB 600 amp with a tube amp That’s fine, to me the stars of your show are the amp and speakers, you’ve, got the megabuck cables, all that left for me with questions is the rest to change/re-configure, can you get more spread between the speakers, they are very close, or have... |