pubul57
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I wish I were going to RMAF this year, that steak house was great and the Audiogon party at the Mexican restaurant was a hoot - have fun! | |
| Merlin TSM with Manley Mahi-Mahi? Bobby likes Manley. EL84s are wonderful tubes - so I can't see why the Mahi Mahi would not be an excellent amp for driving the TSMs - it is certainly enough power, and switching to triode might also work nicely for small scale acoustic music. Oh, ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? George, that is what I thought but being an E.E. ingnoramus I did not feel comfortable making that claim, or the my EMM Labs CDP seems to have a pretty well built power supply. I think that whatever it is that some prefer with active linestages (e... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? The "Heather Test" has officially entered the Audiogon lexicon, and I suspect we all do it and rely on it from time to time:) Now, where did I put the Chianti....? | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? The "Heather Test" has entered the lexicon, and I suspect well all do it:) Now, where did I put the Chianti....? | |
| All I want is The Truth, just gimme some truth... So Anthony, when are you going to buy a B1 so I can figure out if I should get one? Kidding - sort of. I'm pretty sure that in my set up, a buffer could only hurt, but if I had to run long interconnects it could only help. As you know, Modjeski di... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? As George said June 14th, "The best sound you will get is to put your (CD DAC or Phono) directly into your power amps with a VERY quite CD track first, this is the most perfect "true to the source" sound you will get, and only the Lightspeed Atten... | |
| Preamp with Aleph 5 and Thiels I agree with Unsounds point, it seems you need another amp to drive the Thiels to their best - it is a great amp, but it really is not great at delivering current, a bit like a tube amp, and the Thiels need current and more watts to sound their be... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I don't think there is any confusion about why "Bolero" is a recommended piece for trying a direct connection between CDP and amp.Not sure I've hear an argument yet as to why a direct connection is not "the" standard for assessing the sound of a r... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "the Lightspeed's simulated output impedance varies from about 37 Ohms to about 14.6 kOhms"... Does the output impedance go down as the volume goes up? | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Non-audiophiles would laugh at 99% of what is said here, there view is not the gold standard for judging the argument here.I understand that CDPs are not meant to play directly into amps as you would have to add the expense of volume control, but ... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Why there will never be a best preamp ever:) | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Ah! A good music recommendation, I will get that.I never compared the Atma-sphere preamp with the LSA as I use it with the Atma amps in all balanced connection, so I jave not been able to compare them with the same amp.I use the LSA with the Music... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Interesting article by Robert Harley in the 2011 Buyer's Guide (TAS) on audio vocabulary - including "fowardness" and "laid back".What I find with the LSA is that soundstage and imaging changes with the recordings - that to me is a good sign.One t... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I have no doubt the LSA is truer to the source than any acrtive linestage. Whether being true to the source sounds better or not to a particular listener is another question that nobody but the listener can answer. What I think the LSA offers, is ... |