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| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Any one who is blind to the fact and doesn’t believe that an active stage has noise, distortions ect, and any increase in gain of that active stage also increases any noise ect coming into it and within it’s self. Your better to raise the passive ... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? So its not clear where you are going with this, but clearly it fails to address my prior post if that was your intention. I’ve addressed everything that need to Ralph. Once again simply."Any! active stage/s introduces noise hum and distortions, i... | |
| New Amps to match up with PSB T3 speakers donpepe New Amps to match up with PSB T3 speakers An amp cable of running into a 4ohm load continuously without breaking a sweat, would be ideal, as this graph shows most of the bass will present to the amp as 4ohms, and that’s where all the pow... | |
| SACD SACD sounds better right??? Ah, no.Cheers George | |
| Converting cd's to high resolution audio my reading tells me that the cd itself has a limited shelf life and will degrade over time. I still have the first cd’s I bought in 1982 and they are still perfect, not a hint of degrading, I’d say a H/D would be less reliable than that. But ple... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? direct drive amps for my ESLs. Yes yes now your talking clio09 , I would like to do this myself on my Monoliths, have all the right tubes, tranny’s ect, but it’s dangerous to own such a amplification/speaker wire weapon.Like the 805 set monobloc... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? The best active buffer with or without gain, is going to generate distortions and noise, no matter how good it is. Nelson Pass back that up when hes says:" A “passive preamp” - just an input selector and a volume control.What could be better? Hard... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Note: The words THE MASTER!! were added to my post after the fact. I don’t care when it was added. As the "volume control" is always the "Master", just thought I’d drive it home to you. Clearly you don’t work with active line sections or you woul... | |
| Topping Dacs D-50, DX-7, and DX7s You guys think it’s better than the Modi Multibit? It’s got almost the top ESS dac’s one for each channel I believe, someone said this, "D50 and D7s use 2 x ES9038Q2M - ie one chip for each channel."But as far as doing Redbook goes, I’m for Multi... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? since the volume control (THE MASTER!!) has to be before the active gain stage in order to prevent overload. So the noise floor of a tube line stage if well-designed will be a constant. So the noise floor of a tube line stage if well-designed wil... | |
| Topping Dacs D-50, DX-7, and DX7s Yeah I know what you mean Michael, I’m tempted to buy one of them. Even though they are Delta Sigma just so I can do DSD with.Cheers George | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? I never said to run the gain stage wide open and reduce it with the master, I said the opposite, who’s the **** now. I said before to lay off whatever it is others have said you consume, as it's doing you no good. | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? That doesn’t even make logical sense. Read again sunshine, maximum master volume with minimum "tube gain" for loudest listening level. Will give lowest noise figures I forgot to mention that when you purchase an Axiom passive preamp the mfg will ... | |
| Need Discontinued Cary CD306 Repaired pbnaudio Yes the 306/200 seems to be fine with VAM1202But if the two SACD's are Sony KHS-180A it's guna hurt.Cheers George | |
| Need a headphones amp/dac solution that I can stream to from my NAS Topping DX-7 or 7s dac is getting some outrageous talk about how good it is, for I think $199 through Mass-dropThought they need their own thread. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/topping-dacs-d-50-dx-7-and-dx7sCheers George |