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| Pimping your router Antigrunge2, I will be at stage 3 once I get my streamer. I must use a 14' ethernet cable at the moment. Once I have had a chance to get acquainted with streaming I likely will consider other tweeks. Thanks. | |
| Schitt Saga tube buffer preamplifier gain? The Saga and the Freya serve different purposes. Though both can be used to drive an amplifier. They are not equally compatible with every system however.The Saga is a passive pre with a tube buffer that can be switched in or out. The Freya is a ... | |
| Schiit Saga+...What’s the point of the tube? Larshepping, most amps have an input impedance between 20K and 100K ohms. One need the amplifier input impedance to be at least a 10x larger value that the output impedance of the preamp driving it. This can be thought of as preventing the amp fro... | |
| Ethernet cables Basically it is the same advice I give to those putting together their 1st system. Put their money into the active components, purchase quality inexpensive cables, and tweek thereafter once one has become familiar with the system. I sometimes tak... | |
| Low gain preamp options I should state that I agree with the gain issue given digital component output voltages. Two volts seems to be the minimum. Too many amps with far too low a sensitivity rating. I have a Line Magnetic integrated which is 0.2V sensitive. Even in tri... | |
| Low gain preamp options Talk to Aric of Aric Audio. He makes 3 tube preamps at different price levels having variable output gain, low output impedance, and 2 sets of outputs. Aric has a nice website. | |
| Ethernet cables Well, I recently was provided with a high enough speed internet to allow hi-rez music streaming. I am about to purchase a Bluesound streamer to be connected to router via ethernet cable. I purchased the Monoprice Cat8 cable as it was of higher qua... | |
| Is it possible to bring your kids into this hobby? I always had a decent audio system in my house and my 3 kids were exposed to good music. I purchased each a system that fit their needs based on their desires, not my own. None expensive. My oldest daughter has a vinyl based system. My son runs v... | |
| Help me complete my stereo system (Harbeth, ClearAudio Concept). Yes, it is a great amplifier. Sorry, I was just providing info regarding power requirements, not trying to make a amp recommendation.You might start a new thread requesting amp recommendations for the P3s. Provide budget, sonic preference, rooms s... | |
| Now I am in a Delimma What amp are you currently using? Maybe take your amp to the dealer a d give an extended listen to the Klipsch there. Unless you are intending to purchase both. | |
| Amplifier knobs...where to "set" on the clock? In as much as I would agree the ideal would be not to have to attenuate the amplifier, a 200wpc amp driving 100dB speakers seems a mismatch. In your case, with the amp unattenuated you are using very little of the gain provided by the line stage o... | |
| Help me complete my stereo system (Harbeth, ClearAudio Concept). BEL, Brown Electronics Labs is no longer. Mr. Brown passed away in 2009. | |
| Help me complete my stereo system (Harbeth, ClearAudio Concept). Yes the P3 would play well into your room and of a quality that responds to quality amplification. Regarding sensitivity I believe they are much like my Esoteric MGs which are ~87db sensitive and 6 ohm nominal impedance with a min slightly below ... | |
| Schiit Saga+...What’s the point of the tube? The input impedance of the amplifier to be used with the Saga is important. The output of the Saga differs between passive and buffer mode. With buffer being much lower. This as I understand it. | |
| Schiit Freya+ or Saga+? Vidar or Aegir? If I were to purchase a Saga I would do so to use the tube stage. To me there would be no other reason to own one. The mentioned high output impedance of the passive stage would also bother me. With a room of your size I would think the Aegir woul... |