georgehifi
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| How to clean inside Amps and PreAmps Dust across PCB tracks and component legs, can become conductive in hi humidity and cause trouble. Just in the last few days in Sydney we had the worst storms ever recorded damp everywhere in the house. I had I thought my computer motherboard had ... | |
| Tubed Phono Preamp Shawnlh hi, what amp have you upgraded too?Cheers George | |
| SET shortlist to drive tweeters in active system Hi Lewinskih01, for a top tweeter amp you want extension and Class A. I would look at some of Nelson Pass Aleph's or a small class a kit, if your up to doing a chassis and power supply this maybe nice.http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/KSA50-CLASS-A-AMPLI... | |
| Recommend Class a Amp I heard a pair Dave, driving a pair of Wilson Alexia's there were many other big esoteric amps there also worth $20k+ tubes and S/S and they couldn't come close to what the JC1's could do.Cheers George | |
| threshold amp Ask Soundguy3 over here he likes them and has had it mod'ed by the guru of Threshold mods. Quite a while back I also had an S300 MkII with opto bias and thought it was very goodhttp://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1276356977&openf... | |
| Recommend Class a Amp I've seen them S/H in the US for $5k on ebay and here.When they first came out this is the price in the US from Stereophile"Price: $6000/pair. Approximate number of dealers: 20. Warranty: 10 years parts, 5 years labor (US, Canada)."Cheers George | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Thanks for that great review Soundguy3 (John). http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1276356977&openflup&1635&4#1635As others that have the Dual Mono Lightspeed Attenuator you will get used to using it, like owning the Audi... | |
| Is my preamp useless? Your right Swampwalker. My aim was originally trying to get the OP of this thread to do, was to go direct with his PS Audio DSD into his amps, with no any mention from me of my own product. Others seem to like to bring it up as a target. Being 6'2... | |
| Is my preamp useless? 12-21-05: Jmcgrogan2I've moved on to the newest fad, passive amplification. It's great!! There's no amplifier like no amplifier!!All you that thought passive line stages were the end of the road are wrong, just wait until you add passive amplifica... | |
| Is my preamp useless? Facts are there to see, members just need to look at Bills (Grannyring) statements here and over at the Lightspeed forum, it's not hard see what going on.I'll leave it at that.Cheers George | |
| Is my preamp useless? No negativity or accusations of conspiracy.Just presenting a portion of written facts/quotes.Cheers George | |
| Is my preamp useless? I'll just show this from another thread.Quote Grannyring: "I am usually 100% against passives "Cheers George | |
| Is my preamp useless? I just can't fathom why some one would buy at different time 4 x Lightspeed Attenuators. A second one I can understand, thinking, "maybe I made a mistake by selling the first one", but now a 4th one??It's beyond me, but hey keep buying them as it ... | |
| Recommend Class a Amp Not only did Stereophile give the Parasound JC1 monoblocks a great rap Tomcy6, but also this site, with lab test also to back them up. http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_11_3/parasound-jc1-amplifier-8-2004.htmlCheers George | |
| Input sensitivity, Gain and Preamp matching Milpai: My amp is 1V for full power,and I use a TVC. Or else, like Al mentioned, you will not hear the "full potential" of your system.So long as you can get to the volume level you like to listen to IS ALL THAT MATTERS, even if a passive is full ... |