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| Just purchased a Belles 150A Reference amp. Watch should my preamp be.. Is there a simplified video crash course or articles that help me understand why those numbers should be alarming to me. No not really that you would understand. To put it simply as possible, most sources have over 2v output, your 150A only needs... | |
| Dedicated Red Book CD player vs. "Universal" type players.... beernut Dedicated Red Book CD player vs. "Universal" type players.... For doing PCM, Redbook 16/44 or 24/96, and DXD it's best to use a cdp or dac that uses digital to analogue (D/A) converter that is Multibit, rather that one that uses Delt... | |
| Just purchased a Belles 150A Reference amp. Watch should my preamp be.. Just purchased a Belles 150A Reference amp. You need to look at the gain and input impedance, before jumping in, so should others.With an input impedance of 100kohm and gain at only 1.27v!! for full output the 150A is begging for a passive preamp... | |
| RCA Caps Like the Cardas Caps they don’t having to be shorting type caps to be effective. These are good for nothing sound or noise wise.Like Al said, "a shorting plug will have electrical effects, by lowering the input impedance of the unused input to es... | |
| Preamp dskinner5 OPIs the impedence a problem mating the REF 5SE with the Pass X350.5, I`m not understanding the whole thing? Can someone explain this to me? Manufacturing a product that is dependant on being a good impedance match and having much ex... | |
| Schiit Yggdrasil -- 21 bit? Just as a side note the AD5791 is close to $100 and the ESS’s around 1/10th of that.Looks like the AD5791 took over where the PCM1704 left off.PS Loved the video interview with Moffat and Stoddard.Cheers George | |
| Best Volume Settings? Sorry, wrong posters quote above it should have been this one. There are many preamps that provide too much gain when paired with the higher voltage outputs of many digital sources. The ability to reduce the output from these sources allows for l... | |
| Best Volume Settings? Thanks for your various points of view so there is no correct answer depending upon the source and pre/amp design and specs. It was interesting and educational performing this experiment and is food for thought for anyone interested experimenting... | |
| Best Volume Settings? Reducing sources digital domain volume control below 75% of full up can "bit strip" the music. As Wadia and Mark Levinson know and issue these instructions in their user manuals. https://ibb.co/e8sQxbCheers George | |
| Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar A designer who doesn’t have a clue about audio industry digital signal processing should not be designing audio digital converters, IMHO. I must have missed something, which designer are we talking about here?Cheers George | |
| NEW!!! Wilson Alexia MkII listening session Some massive 2" diameter gold things, that wouldn’t look out of place for fire engine water delivery hoses. You can just see them in the back ground of the first pic.http://www.soundstageaustralia.com/index.php/reviews/84-wilson-audio-specialties-... | |
| Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar STEREOPHILE: Its digital circuitry appears to have problems with high-level, high-frequency tones, and with the LSBs of 24-bit data. It’s possible, of course, that the former will be rare with music, This says to me that it may never happen with p... | |
| RCA Caps Al is correct, all you need is cheap $1 rca plugs that have been shorted, do get fooled into buying expensive caps that do nothing but may give you expectation bias.Cheers George | |
| Schiit Reference Sytem review: Freya into Yggdrasil, into Vidar BTW the heading should read " Yggdrasil into Freya into Vidar"Cheers George | |
| Preamp dskinner5 The Ref 5 se has a high output impedance as measured by Stereophile especially in the bass. Steer clear of this pre with the X350.5’s input impedance of just 20k." Stereophile: However, at 20Hz the impedance rose to 1447 ohms balanced... |