mitch2
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| Cable management....crossing at right angles or Use shielded cables, keep them away from each other as much as possible, cross them at or close to right angles when you can, and then don’t worry any more about it unless you have a specific noise issue. If you feel better lifting them off the f... | |
| DAC DIRECT IN TO AMPLIFIER OR TO PREAMPLIFIER @ghdprentice You put together a system without one and you don’t know what you are missing. And this missing stuff is often the most important stuff… Very true, both wrt to preamps and with other stuff too. In my case it was dual subs, which... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Clapton - The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions | |
| One key to building great systems over time. A swing and a miss...its going to happen. If something doesn't work for you, get out fast and move on. However, if it does work, recognize that and take the win. Perfection is the enemy of progress -WC. Before I was able to spend more on my sy... | |
| Full range stand mounted speakers The A/D/S L810s that I owned for 20 years used a perforated metal grill. They looked and sounded great and I still use two pair of their smaller model speakers (also with perforated metal grills) in ancillary systems. Mine looked exactly like th... | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? I don’t now why the normal rules wouldn’t apply - passives work best being fed a low input impedance signal (<200’ish ohms) then output to a high impedance amplifier input (>50K ohms) and being positioned so the output IC only needs to trave... | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? @pioneerhip In a different thread you asked about Hattor's Tube Active Stage and I said I would answer here in this current thread. I have cut/pasted and slightly edited portions of a couple of my previous posts that I believe will answer your ... | |
| Hattor users - thoughts on Tube active stage? @pioneerhip Ask your question over on the other thread and I will post something over there about the Tube Active Stage, which I purchased after making this post in 2021. I also just posted my thoughts about resistors on the other thread. | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? Earlier this year, I owned the icOn 4PRO AVC balanced passive preamplifier that uses four Slagle autoformer volume control modules. It was seductive in how the music was presented with the warmth described by @ozzy62 coming from a dead quiet backg... | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? @pioneerhip Not sure how I responded to the wrong member but my post below from earlier today was intended for you. Hattor’s The Big Preamp is a very good sounding preamp and a great value. Let us know if you have any specific questions. | |
| Hattor Audio preamps? @tnk1998 I still own two of the Big Preamps and more recently had Arek make a custom Khozmo dual-mono passive using his best Amtrans AMRG resistors and volume control from the Hattor, upgraded connectors, and only a single input and output (i.e.... | |
| WHY CABLES MATTER! @tvrgeek Your comments about stock Belden cables being hard to beat is interesting given all the theories, marketing hype, and exorbitant pricing for "audiophile" cables that either by measurement or listening tests have not been uniformly prove... | |
| Whats playing on your system today? Susan Tedeschi, Derek Trucks, and the whole band, just awesome. Played Clapton and Duane Allman here today on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. | |
| Would you choose 1 ou 2 subwoofers for a stereo set? Another benefit to using subs is the ability to high pass your main speakers, and possibly even mains that go as low as the 802s, thereby relieving the amplifier and the low frequency drivers in your main speakers from trying to push low bass freq... | |
| Would you choose 1 ou 2 subwoofers for a stereo set? Agree with @jasonbourne71 and @mijostyn - two bigger subs. Going from one to two subs made a significant difference in both the sound of my system and my level of enjoyment from what I hear. You need big and fast subs that goes low, to augment the... |