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| What's your "diminishing returns" preamp choice? Ditto to Timrhu. The best most transparent preamp is no preamp, unless!!! you need to your ear, a "colouration" that nearly all preamps bring to the sound. And then it's particular to your own system and your own ear, no one elses.If you believe t... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Just trying to bring back the thread back on subject."Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD" Cheers George | |
| Do Countries Have a "House" Sound Today things have evened out more, but yesteryear things were quite different, speaker balance more than electronics seemed to dictate the "house sound"Back in the 70's 80's early 90's The Brit's had a house sound that was a purposely laid back mi... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD 07-14-15: Agear Maybe George's clever and cheeky suggestion is the answer.....:)If one has the technical know how and measurement test CD an oscilloscope, it quite simple to do a bleed resistor for a 20hz to 20khz, soldered across left and right o... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Good vinyl has at best 30-40db of channel separation at 1khz, either side of this it's much worse 10-20db, compared to Redbook over 100db all across the audio band. If you put L&R channel bleed network on the output of a cd to mimic the channe... | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Well for starters Jh901 the top of the line MSB uses their own designed discrete version of R2R Ladder Multibit."MSB Sign Magnitude R2R DACMSB has always known the ladder was a superior conversion method and introduced the world’s first discrete 2... | |
| Matching the sensitivity of two amps for bi-amping NikmilkovI ran 20watt single ended (SET) tubes on the mids and highs of esl's and then used a 300watt transistor with input gain pots for the bass driver. Then for the master preamp I use a passive pre to drive both amps. (In your case you'll be u... | |
| Matching the sensitivity of two amps for bi-amping "Some Mcintosh amps have gain knobs, should I try this?"Yes this is the way to get the right balance between the amps so long as the Mac is higher in sensitivity than your AN amps, and then use your CJ preamp for the master volume.Cheers George | |
| Absolute top tier DAC for standard res Redbook CD Amen talk2me... AgearDitto from me too. In my opinion when Redbook is replayed through a well implemented R2R Ladder Mutibit Dac, it's amazing, with detail, smoothness and transient attack that todays Delta Sigma, Bitstream, ESS ect ect dacs just... | |
| Matching the sensitivity of two amps for bi-amping Nikmilkov hi, All you need to do is purchase a solid state amp that has higher sensitivity than your AN amps that also has input level controls. Set the level controls so your bass sounds balanced in your system with the AN amps, an then your CJ p... | |
| Passive attenuator impedance question If this is happening Zd542 the dacs volume control is "bit stripping" in the digital domain, this will not happen with a passive volume control in the analog domain.Cheers George | |
| Best amplifier for klipsch heresy 3 speakers. Curiousgeorge, hi I had a pair of these, great speaker, very unlike your typical Klipsch sound, more audiophile quality rather than quantity.I would look at high biased class A solid state amps power or intergrated. Like Pass, Krell, amps that run... | |
| HELP WITH A PREAMP DECISION Hi Huntermusic, your Esoteric K-01 has a very nice low 47ohm output impedance and your Krell has an equally very nice 100kohm input impedance. Perfect recipe for a passive preamp. You should for peanuts ($49) try out this cheap one first and see w... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? We've found that a buffer for the Lightspeed Attenuator is only needed if your amp is less than <33kohm input impedance or your source has a tube output stage with high 1kohm or more output impedance. If your poweramp has an input impedance le... | |
| oppo 105d straightup Hi Digsmithd, can I suggest you try this as it wont cost anything, and it’s usually for the better, by removing the ModWright's preamp section out of the equation.Feed the output of the Oppo 105 direct into the ModWright's HT bypass rca's (Also fu... |