mrdecibel
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| Should I add a Preamp to my system Another preamp / passive thread ? Read through some of the other threads here, as you will get so many opinions, for, or against. I prefer passive, as any gain stage I have had ( preamp ), colored, and sacrificed, details, in all aspects of my rec... | |
| From ZERO to Hero? To the OP. Are you hearing problems or issues with your system ? These transformers are made as band aids to help with the amplifier / speaker interface, when impedance issues are present. McIntosh is the only ss amp company making autoformers as ... | |
| Merrill Audio ELEMENT 118 on Tour The " stated " signal to noise ratio on the Veritas seems to be much lower than on the 116, 128 db vs. 110 db. Is this a mistake ? | |
| Tekton or Klipsch Never heard the Tekton DIs. Very popular. I have been a Klipsch " Heritage " fan boy for 50 years. I can hear, through Klipsch, differences in fuses, so I feel they have detail and convey nuance. Kefs with a pair of subs will not give you the dyna... | |
| Tortuga Preamps If only the Lightspeed had 3 inputs......I would sacrifice a " little " in sq for the convenience. George feels it sacrifices a lot in sq, and who am I to doubt him. Likely the best passive out there. Which, to me, means, it is the best, as I no l... | |
| Tortuga Preamps I purchased a while ago, the Luminous Audio Axiom, Series 2, with Walker Mods, 3 in, 2 out, single ended, with remote, and I love it. It is not LDR based. Enjoy ! MrD. | |
| Use this song if you are doing an A/B with Preamps There are many recordings I use for evaluating gear, but I particularly like using Stevie Ray Vaughn's " Tin Pan Alley " to do any equipment evaluations ( studio version from the album " Couldn't Stand the Weather " ). Enjoy ! MrD. | |
| Your Side by Side Experience With Best Vintage vs Newer Expensive Hi Tech Speakers Batman.....YMMV..... Enjoy ! MrD. | |
| Using a 100 Volt amp on our 120 volt power line ? Hi all. After more than a year of posting this thread, I am planning on purchasing a 100 volt cd player from Japan, and I am looking for a suggestion for an excellent quality, proper converter, for use here, with our USA 120 volts. Under 100 watts... | |
| Med. 2 Way + great acoustics are better than a super speaker or a sub Eric, you ALWAYS have something to say ! lol Any speakers in a room, that is acoustically well planned out to accommodate those particular speakers, with the proper listening seat, will always sound better than a megabuck system just thrown toge... | |
| Splitter -- One preamp to two amps. What to use? Yeah, what Al said ! | |
| Splitter -- One preamp to two amps. What to use? Your best option, ime and imo, and this is because you have two exact stereo amplifiers, is to passively, vertically biamp the ARs. What this entails, is each amp drives one speaker. Each amp would have one channel feeding the bass, the other chan... | |
| Class A Solid State Sound Getting back to the OP's original post. Class A circuits ( and we are specifically talking about amplifier output stages here ), just sound smoother, more homogenized, less artificial, more involving, with every attribute of recorded music reprodu... | |
| How much does volume matter when breaking in amps and cables? Tecknik, interesting point. In fact, I do not know of a high end manufacturer, that states their equipment sounds optimum as soon as you plug it in and start playing music. So many products owners manuals, written by the engineers and designers, t... | |
| Ordered my new amp today... been a long road! Audiomaze, I am not aware of a Parasound model A 22 +. The A21+ will drive the 10Ts very nicely, and will require lots of break in time until it " settles ". Enjoy ! MrD. |