georgehifi
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 06-16-10: Pubul57No, thinking more in terms of power delivery and power supply fluctuations, the ability of the output stage of the CD player to drive the ICs and the ampThere should never ever be powersupply fluctuations in the output of a cd pla... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? No, thinking more in terms of power delivery and power supply fluctuations, the ability of the output stage of the CD player to drive the ICs and the amp. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 06-16-10: Grannyring:I have a question for you owners of this exciting volume pot. Will it work well on speakers that are 87 db efficient like Soundlab speakers and other ESL's? I say this assuming the amps are very powerful and the spec criteria ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? 06-16-10: Koestner:George, Are you, or could you, consider making a fully balanced version with some sort of remote volume function?:Koestner I'll put it up again, Paul got it almost all. To do a balanced version takes exponentially more matching ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? TompoodieAlso, is anyone aware of a mechanical switching box that would allow one to have, say, 3 rca inputs and one output.There are many out there here is one. This is the best way as it will still allow you go direct when you want the best out ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Sorry to hear that Paul, (please no hate mail) your in good company though, a customer a while ago just sold his $18000aud Matisse Reference pre because of the Lightspeed Attenuator, he invited me around for a listen, it looked ridiculous, here wa... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Grannyring I have a gaint in my opinion :-)Good on you Grannyring you've given me my laugh for the day, I'm just a tech with limited English skills I had to look up "gaint" this is what I found in the Urban Dictionarygaint: loss of blood to the br... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I would guess nearly 99% of good quality cdp dacs have an output voltage of 2v (Redbook Standard) or higher and an output impedance of 200ohms or lower.Amps may have a input impedance of 47K (industry standard) or higher, nearly all tube amps are ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Clio09 but the Noble pots, as good as Roger feels they are, will impart a sonic signature.Clio09This is what I found, all have a sonic signature because of their very soft wiper contact, this has to be a very soft as not to wear out the resistive ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Faziod Hi you will hear very low level of music at minimum level as this is the characteristic of ldr's in this design is they can never go to complete darkness or infinite brightness as these are the controlling factors for resistance. Think of i... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? The Morrison Elad is just a normal active preamp using normal pot and a 50 cent Analog Devices AD797 opamp with no gain. It has nothing what so ever in similarity to the Lightspeed Attenuator and it has nothing what so ever to do with LDR's or LED... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? For members who wish to know how I started the Lightspeed Attenuator project, a small portion of the history is available on this Audiogon post. http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr.pl?aamps&1275616047Cheers George | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Hi fellow audiophiles, first off let me thank you Paul for starting up a Lightspeed Attenuator thread as writings about it were so scattered amongst the other non descript threads, it would have looked sus if I had started it.I have a simple websi... | |
| Music First Audio Passive Magnetic Preamplifiers? Also if you PM me your email address I'll send you a PDF broucher.Cheers George | |
| Music First Audio Passive Magnetic Preamplifiers? A simple one at www.lightspeedattenuator.comIt also listed in the manufacturers listings on AudiogonCheers George |