pubul57
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? What is important for a piece of gear is not great measurements, but great measurements in things that actually correlate to good sounding equipment - not all things measured matter, some really do. In the world of speakers, Floyd Toole and the Ca... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? For those of you you don't know who Arthur Salvatore, he has a website you can easily google with lot's of interesting opinions. His relevance here is that he was a very strong public proponent of passives and it was his commentary and that of Rog... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? True. An endgame to opinion is an endgame to the reviewing game (Tellig has to move on or he will have nothing to write about). As to coloration, I think all all recorded playback is significantly different from live - simply changing microphones ... | |
| more sound in left channel than right channel? Bobheinatz, you too? :) | |
| Who stay with Merlin longest time SUB!!!!!!!!!!! | |
| Who stay with Merlin longest time That sounds like a superb retirement strategy:) | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Oh, and Miguel, beautiful system! | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "I can hear the input/output wire flavor of its internal wiring." Now that is pure, imagine the effect of all the wiring, capacitors, resistors, and solder points in a complex, two-box, mega-weight preamp -- might obscure the sound of the internal... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? And to put it in $$$ perspective, we are talking about a $450 product up against cost no object active which can run into 5 figures..... given that, I know where the frugal audiophile has to head; a passive, and none better than the LSA in my expe... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? What puzzles me, is what it is that causes very seasoned experienced listeners to find active line stages give them something, that I don't quite feel comfortable saying is simply pleasant distortion, though that might be what it is, that leads th... | |
| Who stay with Merlin longest time It does feel good to support an "local" craftsman with excellent products, customer service, and a pretty genuine concern for his customers - all the ingredients for success - and Richard Vandersteen and Ralph Karsten are also in that camp. | |
| Ayre AX-7e vs. Belles Reference 150A Yup, I think what you have right now is pretty darn good already, unless you go Pass Class A, you probably should stay put, your gear is first-rate. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I am a little confused - the compression is an impedance issue, not a gain issue? | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Does lack of "gain" have anything to do with the claim some make that passive are not as dynamic as actives (lifeless, dull)? That us not my experience, but I assume it is true for some in their systems; so, is that attributable to gain or somethi... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "A respected designer of $15K active preamps recently opined to me that approaching SOTA, the quality of the volume control accounts for 85% of the performance of an active preamp." Very telling. Does "gain" have anything to do with the claim some... |