ghostrider45
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| Will an outside DAC over ride the tubes Yes, I enjoy RUSH, especially in the car. | |
| Will an outside DAC over ride the tubes Yes, the digital output of your player bypasses the player's internal DAC and tubed output stage. | |
| Wadia 26 I owned one for about a year around 2001, and only sold it because I acquired a Wadia 9 (not Series 9!) at a great price. The 26 is a 32X oversampler and is basically the DAC section of the Wadia 16 player. It has the typical Wadia sound - lots of... | |
| PS Audio GCPH and Pass X0.2 not talking? What was the signal source when you tested the GCPH directly into the power amp? With the GCPH into the X 0.2, what gain settings did you use on the GCPH and on the X 0.2? Have you tried more than one input on the X 0.2?Really stupid question: Did... | |
| PS Audio GCPH and Pass X0.2 not talking? You say "My VPI Scoutmaster 'table works. My PS Audio GCPH phono preamp works. My Pass X0.2 preamp works" - how do you know? | |
| Best video upscaling chip? The now retired Samsung BD-1200 Blu Ray player and the current Samsung BD-5000U dual format (HD DVD and Blu Ray) player both use the Reon chip. I believe that the high end Onkyo receivers also use the Reon chip, and some high end Pioneer Elite rec... | |
| Best video upscaling chip? Silicon Optix Reon and Reatta chips | |
| My favorite Steely Dan song has to be... Almost Gothic - 2ANNegative Girl -2ANFire in the Hole - Can't Buy a ThrillThere are too many great tunes to choose from.... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? Pass the dunce cap - I referred to the Pass "XONO" Crossover in my previous posts - should have been the Pass XVR1 Crossover. Slip of the acronyms... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? Wloeb - I concur. The differential pair is certainly no passive circuit, though. By definition 2, the Aleph does not not require a differential input for its operation, so bypassing the additional circuitry when connected to a source that is not t... | |
| Please help Two amps to one pair of speaker? This has been covered before. Do not under any circumstances connect both amps to the same speaker without an AB switch. If you do, each amp sees as its load impedance the speaker in parallel with the output stage of the other amp. This may be qui... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? A push-pull amp topology requires two signals 180 deg out of phase. Each phase feeds either the push or the pull section of the output stage. When driven by a single ended signal, the push-pull stage is always preceded by a phase splitter to gener... | |
| "popping" when moving to balanced cables on Amp I run monos and they are always last on first off. My pre runs 24x7. Source components are a mixed bag. Some run 24x7, others are turned on/off for each listening session. Power up sequence is always sources then monos. Power down is the reverse. ... | |
| "popping" when moving to balanced cables on Amp No preamp is going to be stable during power up and power down. Internally voltages are changing rapidly and operating conditions for the preamp stages are not established. I would expect some output transients.It's not your cables. You have to en... | |
| Pass Labs Aleph Question - balanced vs unbalanced? The Alephs are a single ended design, so the balanced signal must be converted to single ended before driving the power stage. I use a pair of aleph 1.2 monos and have run them both single ended and balanced. They sound terrific either way, and I ... |