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| Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ? +1,00000,000 very clearly said and to the point. clearthink . I tend to over elaborate too much with technical reasons and it confuses some. Always best to use as much as possible all of the sources output, for reasons of noise/hum/distortion/colo... | |
| Stereophile's 2021 products of the year There is definite value in the stereophile reviews but you have to be careful with matching components for compatability and synergy. this is why they list the associsted components which i like. Another good point, as then the reader, if ab... | |
| TotalDAC D1 Driver-anyone using one yet? The XLR outputs on the stereo version appear to be "convenience" outputs for those using XLR cables but not really carrying two symmetrically balanced/inverted signals. Which to me says the rca outputs should sound just a bit better than the xlr.B... | |
| Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ? it takes a heck of a DAC to have an analog section capable of robust drive and dynamics that a good preamp brings to the table- Just about any good dac these days has an output stage equal to or even better than preamps especially tube preamps. An... | |
| Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ? in_shore OP Are Preamplifier’s Relevant Today or just a Hinderance with Digital Playback ? Everything being a good match eg: impedance matched and also the digital domain volume control is not below 70% (so it "bit strips") then direct sounds just... | |
| TotalDAC D1 Driver-anyone using one yet? These are maybe’s. Maybe because the dac’s R2R output is really single ended only, and it’s balanced (xlr) outputs use converters (se to xlr) get it, and doesn’t sound quite as good from the xlr because of that converter?And that it sits within a ... | |
| TotalDAC D1 Driver-anyone using one yet? wokeuptobose TotalDAC D1 Driver-anyone using one yet? It’s obviously capacitor couple, looking at those two water tanks inside,http://www.totaldac.com/fichiers/d1-driver-inside.jpghttp://www.totaldac.com/fichiers/d1-driver-rear-rca-xlr.jpgCan’t s... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. Okay, I think the affair is over with the Soekris direct into the amp . This is how it starts, you’ll be back, maybe not tomorrow looking for things you mentioned by going direct that are now missing with the pre in. More detail More contrast bet... | |
| Infinity EMIT Speaker Repair joeradio I have fixed these years ago, without buying new wafersDismantled it quite easy, on the wafer first check/measure with a magnifying glass the lead in lead (circled in red) out tracks for breaks, The the continual ribbon itself. If you ... | |
| Preamp for D’agostino progression power Looks like your Moon 680 is 2v at 100ohm and your Progression amp is 100kohm input impedance and is also very sensitive, as it’s mated Ago Progression preamp they have for it is only 15db of gain. You don’t need a preamp with a lot of gain, if any... | |
| All things being equal (hypothetical) which do you prefer, XLR or RCA? kingbr Just curious here. All things being equal would you go balanced or unbalanced if you have the option for both? Got to watch it here, as many pieces of equipment especially tubes are only "pseudo balance", with an opamp or balanced circuit... | |
| Switching to battery power pauly Switching to battery power Only good if the equipment you intend putting on battery "has voltage regulators for every stage of it’s design". Then everything stays as the designer calculated for it to work optimally.If no voltage regulators ... | |
| What are Your Favorite Tweeters? Magnat MP-02 Plasma tweeters cannot be matched, not even by esl’s, the plasma gas is the diaphragm so there’s no mass, their FR is out to 1/2megahertz.!!! Ones with horns aren't quite as good, but still better than anything else.https://www.ebay.c... | |
| Discrete R2R Ladder dac from Soekris, Absolute Sounds review. Maybe I have to get used to it Yes and fine tune just like you would have with the preamp in, speaker angle maybe don’t now sit on tweeter axis, angle speakers outwards more this will also give more imagining outside the speakers, and soften the t... | |
| Why would anyone want class AB amp when class A always sounds better ? Once again You can prove this for your self by listening to an amp with user switchable bias while listening. EG Parasound JC1(low/high bias), Gryphon Antillion (low/high/higher bias) etc etc. The difference you hear with more/higher Class-A bias,... |