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With a typical for me sarcasm and cynicism I look though Paul Bolin’s writing about “new” Audio Research Reference 3 preamp. Bitching about preamps is my specialty for years. It is not that I’m on a market for a preamp but whenever somebody does anyt...
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You do not have other ways to connect then how you have connected as in your case of M-Audio card you have AD and DA abort to you DAW. I would load with ferrite in common and deferential mode the cables that go to tuner and play with the way how you ...
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...just a note on the dynamics question... I'm using an Ayre K1xe preamp which has a volume controle hand made at Ayre using individually soldered resisters. (Ayre tells me that that control is a large part of the cost of the whole p...
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Gintaras, basically it is not bias voltage
problem but voltage drifting +-10mV with preamp disconnected. The 10mV is absolutely
irrelevant voltage. You see, the gas tubes are voltage stabilizers but they are
not as precise as the SS stabilizers. T...
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I am all set with preamps. I hardly need or ever try anything else besides my preamp. I do have an interest in hope-to-be-coming Lamm L3 preamp, that will be an answer if the X-factor that I described in L1/L2 articles was a manifestation of Lamm’s i...
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Well, Paul the more you happy and pleased with your transformer-attenuator the more I feel it would be interesting to see your reaction to a good active unit. A “good unit” should be the key-world in here as since you complained about active units’ n...
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Rony,
Actually I did try to drive Melquiades from different source. My old tube buffer, my phonostage and any other not DC-coupled source were not able to drive it. The 6-ch Melquiades is pain in as to drive. It has around 5K input impedance ...
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One last thing I can do is buy some Mu metal sheet on Ebay and lined up the transformer can and potted with wax as you said, but that's too much work and probably do not work as well as on a separate chassis, so for now I will listen the way it is an...
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Not quite on topic but perhaps this deserves to be here:http://www.theaudiophile.net/threads/762-Lyrita-s-new-Mono-amps-and-DHT-Preamp?p=7735#post7735It appears to be a simple two stage SE design with the 6e5p coupled to the GM70 via an interstage tr...
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Amir,If you are looking for a transparent DAC and it could have a built-in preamp, you may want to take a look on:Merging + NadacNadac Player, same but with a built-in music server (or something).I did not listened to them, but at least their Pro Aud...
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I think digital source components are the most sensitive to powerline garbage. They should all be designed to run off batteries. In terms of sensitivity I would rank components like this: 1. Digital Source 2. Solid State Preamp 3. Solid State Amp ...
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After years of using the Expressive Technologies SU-1 and SU-2 step up transformers I come across to a fact this morning that the Expressive was reviewed by Robert Harley in June, 1992. I read the Expressive’s preamp review but I never seen this one....
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[quote user="rowuk"]I am always a bit hesitant to buy into "listening descriptions". I am a musician and am confronted every day with Sound bias - attraction to what we are accustomed to, expectations being confirmed. We are creatures of habit and mo...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Still, I feel that methodologically it is not right
way to build a playback. [/quote]No disagreement from me on this point. This is all just a thought bubble for now. Even if I wanted to press go on this project based ...
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So, it has been a while. I have DSET/Macondo in stereo now although there is still some work to do to finish it and tune it to the room. As discussed earlier in this thread I need a preamp with gain and the Placette is just not cutting it for me (n...
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Roman
I have a problem with navigation on your site so I probably missed the post explaining why preamp should bare the response for absolute transparency ?You reserve the right for the amp to inject an X factor and the sources can do what they wi...
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Similar experience but I get to keep my "old" room. I have just changed my 5 way horn loaded down to 140 hz speakers to a friends room twice as big as mine, with an open back area into the house as your new room has and one side and the front have hu...
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Hi Romy,I too have for quite some time been on a quest for a truly transparent preamp. To this end I have tried some that were indeed very good such as the Silvaweld SWC 1000 that I now own and especially the Vacuumstate RTP-3d from Allen ...
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This is very interesting, Anthony. I do think that absolute polarity has own role to play. Also, do check the DC that might be sent out of your preamps, certainly with Placette and with your 10Y before the transformer. Chas it with disconnected Milq ...
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[quote user="steverino"] Romy said "When I had my magnetic and EMI probes running with open PP2000 cover then the probes showed me that I was in the middle of Chernobyl Black Forest. I think the PP3000 even more poisoning..."Now I begin to understan...
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It is not my quests. I do have my ultimate preamp and I experience absolutely no frustration about it. However, writing today about the new Lamm LL1 I suddenly realized that I never conceptualized for public what in my view the contemporary truly...
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Anthony, I know what you
feel but I am no sure that I might be too useful for you quest. Let me to explain
first the points you made.
I do not know why Placette
does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the
case ...
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The reason that I built the 6C33C preamp was to explore the 6C33C true musical potential like I did with the 845. Not only did I compare the sound of these tubes in power amp, but also in preamp. The reason is that with power amp you might hit some l...
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Last weekend, just for fun, I brought the amp and preamp to the 2011 Burning Amp in San Francisco. On the first speakers, the Audio Kinesis, I let the heater warmup for about 15 min, and then switched on the power, the amp was fine, we played...
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Peter, what is the relation in your installation between DA-924 and the tuner? Hey might not be sufficiently connected in order the HF dirt penetrate the tuner. In my case it is too much and the interference is very strong. In my case TU-X1 has no we...
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Romy, in the contrary, it is very unfair to compare my 845 amp with the 6C33C. The main reason is the 845 amp used the best output/interstage transformer available, while the 6C33C's output xformer is pretty good but far from being best for the 6C33C...
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Thinking about it again and again I decided for now to have integrated connection of my AV. The BlueRay player will be plug to the preamp of the main system. The preamp will drive two power amps: Milq and SS amp. The Milq will drive the full scope of...
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Hi,I've just taken receipt of a Model 2 to use as a DAC in my study (using the ADC occasionally for recording live from a mic). I would like to feed the balanced XLR outputs of the Model 2 into the single-ended RCA inputs of my Berning Siegfried amp,...
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Come on, Thomas, no one talks about the 75-85db of gain at MM level. However, the higher gain does has some things that I find is very useful and I find it is much worth to burn extra 15dB in prams then to have a preamp wide open and run photo at low...
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Hm, I did not realize that that it was a preamp. I thought that
it was a hybrid power amp. In preamp the Y10 probably might sit at lower
voltage. I have no idea how can they talk about preamp and do not talk about
what output impedance it has....
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