georgehifi
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? It all starts with the source, in your equipment.It sounds very good to me, and I have no wish to change it's sound or colour it in any way.Cheers George | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Your generalizing. All sources are not flawed, maybe just the ones you've listened to are.So instead of getting a source you like, you colour the source you have that you don't like the sound of with an active preamp. This is a mine field of trial... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? OK, don't get your back up, you just admitted you don't like the sound of your source and you wish to colour it with your Dude active tube preamp, enough said.And yes Nelson Pass is a businessman as well, and one of very few of the very best audio... | |
| Pass x250.8 vs Boulder 850 vs Spectral DMA250 You welcome Maz, it's all about the current delivery (even at low volume level) with speakers like yours and many others that have nasty load areas. (Good current delivery is Doubling watts or close to it.) EG: 50w-8ohms 100w-4ohms, 200w-2ohms, 40... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I've said many times, and also Nelson Pass in my last post above in so many words. If your after to change/colour the sound of the source, don't look at the Lightspeed or most passives, go with an active preamp. As all active preamps sound differe... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? No nothing going to waste Finn (Andrew) as you have 100kohm input impedance on your amp, so it doesn't mater where the volume is set on the Lightspeed you are getting great impedance matching still over the entire range.This is a classic quote fro... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? The Lightspeed can never go to complete zero volume (there is always a whisper at min) and in rare very high gain systems such as Fins the volume will be down around 9 or 8 o'clock low for normal listening level, and this will give the impression ... | |
| Conrad johnson pv10b to M&K subwoofer If your CJ PV10B preamp is tube, it may not be a great impedance match with the M&K MX-150 THX sub, as it only has a 15kohm input impedance, this is more suited to solid state preamp that have lower output impedances than tube preamps.Cheers G... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? That's a real shame Banquo363, I was looking forward to the boxing match with the Lightspeed. You know for the past 7 years I have sent hundreds of Lightspeeds all around the world, even to places like Guam!! and not one has been lost or damaged. ... | |
| Which preamp? Opinions? Suggestions? C421C, from what I've Googled the Phase Linear 400 has good performance to be used as a bass amp. Wattage, current, and damping factor. Sure there are better today, but what you've got is ok for bass, mids and highs are most probably rubbish.Just ... | |
| Which preamp? Opinions? Suggestions? I would opt for a 10kohm passive volume control, as you already have the servo controller after it which will drive the Phase Linear (39kohm) from it's buffered ouputs and the VTL's (100kohm) from it's bypass outputs nicely. So all the passive and... | |
| Leben CS600 vs McIntosh MC275 Going on measurements, if the CS600 is anything like the CS300, I would opt for the MC275, it has the far better looking measurements re FR flatness and square wave ringing responses. The Leben rings like a bell with the square waves and is also s... | |
| Need some Jhm007, your speakers will have very similar impedance/phase angles as the 804d. And this while reasonably efficient (90db) are a be of a nasty load, they don't need a lot of watts, but what they do need is an amp that can deliver good current. So... | |
| Passive pre-amp source switch This is a very nice priced ($49usd) unit for those wishing to try out a passive Volume Control and it has the right value pot. Just wish it were an (Alps Blue Velvet).Just remember for a good impedance match you need a source that has around 100oh... | |
| Amplifier specs, does they matter? Very much so. Specs on amps and speakers as one of the main ones.Is an amplifier capable of driving the whole frequency range of a speaker's load impedance & negative phase angle, and do it without any strain staying flat in it's delivery, and... |