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| New Tortuga passive/active tube pre looks like a winner https://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=163967.msg1767308#msg1767308 Initial comments from customers have been positive. Here's a recent customer post on our audiocircle.com forum. I've copied the text below. Just got mine today at last. It ... | |
| Tortuga Preamps Regarding "active forced matching" mentioned above, the way it's described in this thread is NOT how Tortuga Audio implements this feature. During normal operation of the passive LDR preamp there's zero active matching going on. That measurement c... | |
| New Tortuga passive/active tube pre looks like a winner Hi All, Thought I'd pipe in here with some perspective. The LDR3000T is indeed NOT a passive preamp although it does employ our V25 LDR preamp controller/attenuator which is the heart of our current line of passive preamps. Downstream there's a ... | |
| Tortuga Preamps I try desperately to stay out of the subjective vs. measured debate...it gets so old and tired. I try to keep it simple. Do you like what you hear? Yes? Stay with it. Don’t like what you hear? Try something else. Is that so hard? I know people rea... | |
| I used to think passive preamps were superior to active preamps given right the setup, but A typical explanation for why passives sometimes don’t perform as well as actives is that the source doesn’t have enough voltage/current to push the signal through a passive to the amp. I think this was even mentioned by someone in this thread. Wh... | |
| I used to think passive preamps were superior to active preamps given right the setup, but We'll soon have an optional solid state buffer output stage for our Tortuga preamps. We've been trying various designs for quite a while now and have settled on a JFET output stage with a servo DC offset correction and direct DC input (no coupling... | |
| Solid State Power Amps That Sound Most Like Tubes? I just picked up a vintage McIntosh 4100 integrated amp at an estate sale. The tubiest SS amp I've heard to date. I've dubbed this amp "The Vinylizer" because it makes all my digital content sound like it's coming off of vinyl. I've seen these on ... | |
| Computer output to DAC, which route? I have a custom desktop PC with a very good motherboard. I've been using the motherboard COAX into a Channel Islands DAC (VDA-2) for some time now. BUT!! Recently I purchased a $20 (yes, a mere $20!!) USB to SPDIF to compare performance. Wow was I... |