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| Advice on a preamp @shamus2211Your Sanders Magtech Amp has 100kohm input impedance, a perfect candidate for a passive preamp.You could try the Schiit Sys for only $49 and it’s returnable, it also has 2 inputs. This should give you more transparency/dynamics and a ti... | |
| New Bel Canto REF600M using NCORE All this talk about noise/hum is a bit mute, without proper bench test results.The way to "pseudo" see what is noisier than what without looking at them on the test bench, is to disconnect the preamps and put shorting input plugs on the power amp ... | |
| Filter tweak for digital backwash? I thought it was pretty easy to deal with noise injection(?)It was 10 years ago, we had relatively low levels of noise to deal with. Today now we have designers making new things, like Class-D, Delta Sigma converters and SMP(S) (sorry Bob), that i... | |
| Tubeyist sounding Pre-amp? Are there tube haters here?All depends how they are used, their are some that are designed with purposely induced 2nd harmonic distortions, that fit the OP's description of "Tubeyist". Then there are some that strive them so clean as the emulate S... | |
| Using Pre-out / Main-in with External Crossover This should be fine with an active xover, just like putting it between separate pre and power.Cheers George | |
| Filter tweak for digital backwash? I thought it was pretty easy to deal with noise injection(?)Not when smp is involved.Cheers George | |
| Synergistic Red Fuse ... +1 Wolf.Straight out of someones book of voodoo!Cheers George | |
| Filter tweak for digital backwash? Maybe it's a cheap noisy one?Cheers George | |
| What is optimal frequency for front tower loudspeakers for movies/music mirage os3 fs 52 Hz - 20 kHz +/- 3dB As Erik says, around 80hz on the receiver xover to the sub should be about right.BTW: doesn't the PR-SC5508 have a microphone to do calibration, phasing and eq'ing automatically? As this is very hard to beat, d... | |
| Filter tweak for digital backwash? Most laptop chargers are smp (switchmode) these days.Try to get a linear charger for it, and your problems will be solved.Cheers George | |
| Line Magnetic 219ia 12AX7 Tube Rolling From what I’ve seen they (12AX7) seem to be the input tube for this Line Magnetic 219ia amp.If you have plenty of gain on the volume, you can try different 12A*7’s. The AX7 has the highest gain, but to me for an input tube on an amp, it’s a bit br... | |
| Best Sounding Passive Preamp kalaliI use a Schiit Sys, two inputs and volume control, all for $49. Very transparent.+1 for this. Simple test is, to go direct from source to amp, with a very quiet starting CD (eg:Ravels Bolero), with your finger on the stop button in case it g... | |
| HDCD rescue - it's possible, but man... - CD's get mastered with HDCD "data tag" but no features used. - Label gets printed without HDCD because it's not real. PB Nightclub, hdcd sounds far better than non hdcd, same session.Don't know what I'm getting at here.Cheers George | |
| How do you know if your amp is putting out @ Rated Wattage ? Upon playing the new amp I can feel the 1095 to have slightly higher volume levels than the 1065 but dont feel it is putting out DOUBLE the power of the 1065. Just an gain difference between the two amps, don’t worry about it.Look at the specs of ... | |
| Tubeyist sounding Pre-amp? What pre-amp has the most tubey sound?The one with the most 2nd harmonic distortion, or you could have one with mircophonic tubes that gives many the false impression of "wow listen to the euphonics" .Cheers George |