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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Scott you could try 2 inexpensive different ways to power the Lightspeed Attenuator, that many say is an upgrade to the power pack that I use.1: Pure dc, rechargeable Lithium battery these will last around 1-2 weeks of listening a couple of hours ... | |
| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? It not only claimed 500 hours for the DAC, but per input as well. Sounds like Ralph’s "expectation bias" to me. By that time not only would a trial period be over but the warranty as well with some.Still not advertised and written on a web page li... | |
| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? When a designer is building a new product and makes changes, the component gets broken in before they listen to it.I’m not talking prototypes, it’s production ones I’m referring to. And the way your inferring is that the production ones are delibe... | |
| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? I’ve had ARC gear that claimed a 500 hour break in with nothing fancier than Wima polypropylene caps.ARC claimed this themselves in writing? Or are they saying owners report this.I’d love to see where that’s written if they claim this. If they did... | |
| Class D Technology Wrong thread | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take George, the perfect recording has not been made yet and probably won’t be made in our lifetimesI like to hear my best recordings as they come from the dac, and if the bad ones don't sound so good, so be it, at least I'm not colouring both.If no pr... | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take George, Active preamps can also be fixing poor recordings I don’t think so, the "perfect" active preamp is said to sound like a straight piece of wire, it should not add or take away from what the source is giving, but that perfect preamp is yet t... | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take and you can sometimes have a bad match. In a case like this, using a preamp may be a less colored option. OP: " It only took a couple of tracks to confirmI just did not like this sound, bass was much thinner, soundstage not as wide, vocals not as ... | |
| Another discrete R2R Ladder Multibit Dac, this ones from Audio GD, their coming on strong. both those sites bring up errors.Odd I click on them and they go straight there.http://www.audio-gd.com/Master/Singularity19/Singularity%2019EN.htm http://www.audio-gd.com/Pro/diy/DA01/DA01EN.htm These are copied direct from the address bar. Try t... | |
| Why does it take so many hours to brea in arc preamps and amps? Let’s play with the "burn in" crews heads.If you think about it, all the optimum adjustments are made at the factory after the amps been on for a while, maybe an hr if your lucky.If thing change after 600hrs then those optimum factory adjustments ... | |
| Class D Technology I'm not sure what this "class A input stage" is. Input stages are almost always class A (would be stupid not to)+1 I've never seen anything but Class-A input stages, it BS advertising to con the gulible.Cheers George | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take Then you have digital gods like Thorsten Loesch designer of all AMR digital stuff saying this." Turn down the volume even the tiniest bit using the digital volume control and the sound quality to a massive hit. "Cheers George | |
| To Pre or not to Pre? Here is my take What does this tell me?That absolutely the ls preamp is adding its own sonic signature to the mix, in theory that equates to probably a more "dirty" sound but to me this was the sound I preferred.Two things going on here, that need to be addressed... | |
| I heard the $4000 Focal Utopia Headphones yesterday I find it a bit disconcerting to have Beryllium so close to your brain.Cheers George | |
| Need suggestions on an integrated amp for Audes Soul speakers If you can find an impedance chart like on these Audes Jazz, it goes a long way to help to decide which way to go with an amp, instead of just going by hearsay without looking into loading impedances that the amp will see.I would say the manufactu... |