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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? So is the Beryllium(Be) used in Focals/JM Labs and other speaker manufacturers that use Focals top tweeters. So is Yamaha NS1000, NS1000X and NS2000, tweeters and midrange units. So is NOS and OS tubes that have Nickle(Ni) inside them. And so is t... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? 06-17-14: MapmanMakes sense.I do think I hear a difference with some new power cords, but so subtle its hard to be certain.These can be a bit different sound, as they have earth, neutral and live. Some shifty mains cable makers swap the neutral an... | |
| What Exactly Does "Burn In" do for Electronics? 06-16-14: Almarg06-16-14: Zd542I have some Cardas cables that take forever. 100's of hours.ZD, as I'm sure you realize I have great respect for your experience and your sonic perceptions. But a question: How do you know that the improvement you ar... | |
| the best amps for bass, best for the rest? 06-15-14: InfinitelybaffledGeorge-lofi i hear what you are saying about OTL valve amps. my big concern there is that the baby grands aren't the most efficient and i enjoy full-bodied sounds at high spl's, so fear they will lack the power i need fo... | |
| Need advice on a tube line stage Ja2austintxIt will still work great, but you won't get a great impedance match with your amp, as it ratio will be around 1:1 It may ever so slightly act as a bottleneck and reduce the transient impact just a touch, but this will be so slight you m... | |
| Need advice on a tube line stage Ja2austintxI hope you have 10kohm log value passive pot, as your poweramp is quite low in input impedance. If any higher than 10k it won't be a great impedance match into your poweramp, gain will be fine, but impedance not very good.As for inputs,... | |
| Need advice on a tube line stage Ja2austintx Hi, just to give another direction idea to you. Your Cambridge CDP has a very nice low output impedance at <50ohms and over 2v output this will drive virtually anything. And your Bryston 4B SST2 has switchable gain of 1v or 2v input... | |
| the best amps for bass, best for the rest? Infinitelybaffled hi, looks like you aren't short of a buck with these speakers you have, so here goes the best I can conjure up without throwing money away. The ribbon tweeters they have, they claim to go to 100khz and should be exploited with a ... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system For the same reason Phusis, that's why I called my product the "Lightspeed Attenuator", as it's a passive attenuator, as there is no preamplifying going on inside it.Cheers George | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Hi Phusis, a well written self analysis of what you believe is happening, well done.As for the BCA Roquefort using the word preamp, this is a bit of a misnomer, as it does the volume control in the digital domain before the digital to analogue con... | |
| Lowend Preamp on a budget. 06-09-14: MapmanGEorgelofi,Good stuff, as usual!Thanks Mapman. But me think's it may'th fallen on deaf ears.Cheers George | |
| Caps going out?? Whats this noise... Just to give all an idea of what goes on when the Lightspeed Attenuator has no power connected, the amps inputs will see an open circuit. I think that one of the channels of the amp is not quite behaving itself when it sees this open circuit and g... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system Hcalland, if your phono stage has enough gain by itself by comming out of aux and bypassing the preamps tube line output stage, then yes you are getting rid of an unnecessary tube gain stage and the result will be more transparency.Todays sources ... | |
| Any thoughts on removing a preamp from your system From what a member has sent me O_holter, I don't think the 34A has an active preamp in it.Both the Ming Da MC34A and MC34B are very similar and are poweramps with a 100kohm passive volume control and input switching on the input.The B costs $100 m... | |
| Mark Levinson no. 20 monoblocks Good to hear Mac, you are now hearing your ML #39 cdp for what it is, in the the most transparent most dynamic way you can you can do, nothing added nothing subtracted in the way of colourations or distortions.Cheers George |