pubul57
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? You can't argue with what people like, which is the only criteria that is important. I suppose the straight wire with gain approach is almost a philosophical stand, even when that might not necessarily result in the most enjoyable sound, a bad rec... | |
| ARC versus Joule Electra There is a Joule LA 150MKI which I think used 6H30, and proabably sounded more like current ARC gear, Jud quickly reversed course. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Arthur Salvatore also says, in an interesting way, that if your systems sounds better, in any way, than a direct connection or passive, then your system needs and active preamp (he says most systems do) - because in some way your just not matched ... | |
| CAT JL-3 Versus VAC phi 300.1 monos? OP, have you heard either? | |
| CAT JL-3 Versus VAC phi 300.1 monos? The CAT will make the VAC seem like an air conditioner:) | |
| ARC versus Joule Electra Cmalak, I hear what you are saying, but there is no reason to believe that 10-year old ARC, or 20 year old ARCs may not be as good or better as the current line-up, lot's of reasons for new models other than a constant upward progression, I never ... | |
| ARC versus Joule Electra I think that HPs comments on the LA150MKII capture the essence of the preamps sound and the Joule sound in general, but for the LA150MKI which was a different animal all together compared to the house sound. If you can read HPs review, you get the... | |
| CAT JL-3 Versus VAC phi 300.1 monos? Two world-class amps that can drive most any speaker beautifully - among the best you can buy when you need a lot of tube power (more than 60 watts). | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Lightspeed Attenuator, Best device for controlling volume in an audio system ever? including "real" preamps? | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Anthony, Roger Modjeski was gracious enough to explain to me why he thought resistor passive would be theoretically better than tvcs or avcs (the Audiogon consensus was that TVCs were far better than resistors, that TVCs 'blew them out of the wate... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Fazoid, I think you had the Bent TVC? An very good passive preamp. I've had Placette, S&B TVC, and Bent/Slagle autoformers, and a few others. While I thought they were all exceptional values with excellent sound, I nevertheless, ultimately pre... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Apparently something like this was once used in the Melos preamp years ago, and in the current DarTzeel (something like it). I finished my last post by saying try it, since it is almost impossible to avoid cliams of overhype when talking about a p... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? My interest in passives started when I read on Arthur Salvatore's website "if your source is up to the task of driving your amp(s), then no active linestage, no matter how good it is, will ever equal the sonics of your direct connection (or an equ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? You must order directly from the maker in Australia. A google search will help you find him. I get the feeling he is an individual making a few of these and he pursued this without the idea of starting a real business, but word-of-mouth has proaba... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? You may or may not like it better than your unit, we all know that we personally gravitate to what we want, what we like, and what anybody else says doesn't really matter, IF we can trust our own ears and preferences, all I am saying about this pr... |