swampwalker
Responses from swampwalker
| which preamp works best? These are both phono stages, not pre-amps. Which do you need. | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Uh-oh!! Cable war alert. All hands to battle stations. All hands to battle stations. Cable war alert. This is not a drill. Repeat, this is not a drill!!!! | |
| High power amplifier and small speakers?? There is one consideration not mentioned so far. If you have a high gain amp (not necessarily high power) and a high gain pre-amp, coupled to high sensitivity speakers, you may have to operate the pre-amp at the very low end of its volume control,... | |
| High End Audio CD Players? Headphone Socket You can connect the analog outputs to a dedicated headphone amp, which given the quality of the players you are talking about (and presumably using a good pair of cans) is highly recommended. Many have a pre-amp loop out. Or if your pre-amp has a ... | |
| Recommend a small tube amp for bedroom use? Sophia Baby? | |
| Optical to Coax converter monarchy dip which also reduces jitter. | |
| LCD HD TV Picture Quality Lacking IMO, there is no way that the PQ problem the OP is talking about could be the result of the diff btwn 720p and 1080p, or the result of improper levels. I'd bet the price of a good steak dinner he is watching an SD signal (either digital or analog)... | |
| Can you make some sense? - Problem Sounds like you have the "historic" right channel problem on your left channel. The faint noise you are hearing is probably cross talk in your amp or pre-amp, but if you have no continuity in left channel and have had problems before with those sa... | |
| LCD HD TV Picture Quality Lacking Non-HD channels generally tend to be only fair at best on large screen, HD or ED sets. If you do not have an HD cable box, (or if you are not paying extra for the HD package even if you have the HD box), you cannot display HD. They both are an ext... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? Rccc- cost is of course an issue for most of us, but IIRC, Raul's product (which I have not heard) is as he calls it a "phonolinepreamp" or as most of us call it, a full function pre-amp. If its $12k, that's not out of line for v good similar prod... | |
| MC phono stage without transformer? I will just say that there are several active head amps and phono stages that can handle LOMC at around 0.25 mv so both SUT and head amp are viable. The impact of very small changes in loading of a good SUT (Bent) was very audible in one very reve... | |
| Easy to drive large speakers for Rock & Roll? I had Vandy 2cis and 3Asigs. Great speakers, but not rockers. | |
| The SET amp question. Well that's a pretty good size space but 102 dB is pretty darn efficient. Its not quite double the size of my room (14 x 23) but I do have 8.5' ceilings. Assumming you've got 7.5' its less than 50% larger, but lets consider it twice as large for n... | |
| Mcintosh 2205 amp limit tripped at 90 db Good suggestions from onemug. Its not realistic to think that the "aux power outlet" on the pre can supply enough current, IMO. | |
| The SET amp question. At 110 dB, unless you have a huge room to fill to orchestral live levels, you have the entire universe of SE designs to try. From the 2-3 watt 2A3 based to 9-10 wpc 300bs on up to the 50 wpc Kronzillas. Lots of great amps to try in that range. Tel... |