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| Designer Hall of Fame con'tHenry Kloss and Ed Vilchur - go to WikipediaSaul Marantz, Sidney Corderman, and William JohnsonWell' that's then sort of. | |
| Designer Hall of Fame Wow - lot's of "legends". Hard part with so many worthy candidates is narrowing it down to a group of 10. So I'm updating my first 10 inuagural selections:Nelson Pass, Pass Labs - best SS designerRoger Modjeski, Music Reference/RAM Labs tubes and ... | |
| Preamp recommendations up to $2000 What is the input impedance of your Edge amp? Not sure about the output impedance of the other amps mentioned (AI was quite high if I remember correctly) but the Dodd is a 200 ohm output impedance (a very good thing for balanced sound across the b... | |
| Cheaper substitute for VAC Avatar? If you don't like warmth, forget the Dynaco - it tend to have a classic tube sound though less so in the rebuilds. | |
| Preamp recommendations up to $2000 Just to give you some perspective on the Dodd, I've come to prefer it after having owned CAT, Lamm, Joule, Placette Active and Passive, Atma-sphere (which I prefer with my Atma amps) and a BENT Tap-X. I'm not saying you would like it better than a... | |
| Preamp recommendations up to $2000 OP, any thoughts? | |
| Cheaper substitute for VAC Avatar? Would you consider something like a completely newly built version of the Dynaco ST70 built by Bob Latino or Will Vincent? I think they sell for $845 or so with EL34s and are said to be a significant improvement in the bass compared with the origi... | |
| Joule electra Pre Amp -tube rolling Tony, I think they are GEs, at least they were in my unit. | |
| Cheaper substitute for VAC Avatar? You liked the EL34 version? Just to be sure on comparables. | |
| AV123 LS6 Line Source up and running Any further observation in your comparisons? | |
| Preamp recommendations up to $2000 Dodd Battery Preamp. You don't find many used, but close to that price new. | |
| Unity gain with tube buffer? Ralph, does your comment about TVCs and I assume ATVCs as well apply to pure attenuators passives (resitor-based) as well, or are they hopelessly compromised in terms of getting impedance matching optimized in most systems? | |
| Unity gain with tube buffer? It just seems to me (complete electornic laymen) that if passives are better than actives in those areas where they are better, that a passive with buffer (Placette Active for example)would be better than active in those areas as well -especially ... | |
| Unity gain with tube buffer? If Ralph builds one I will definitely be interested, especially since one of my amps is a pair of Atma-spheres and I assume it will have balanced connections. Clio9, I also spoke with Roger Modjeski who said he is looking into building just such a... | |
| Unity gain with tube buffer? Ralph, assuming enough gain (I don't seem to need any based on my previous experience with passives)is there a reason that an active stage with gain would sound better? It seems to me that less is more if it is enough. |