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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Where are our good phonostages?
Post Subject: More 834PT bravua...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/11/2004

 guy sergeant wrote:
I don't doubt for a moment that there are plenty of people 'who know' who will wax lyrical about the benefits of open loop eq in feedback circuits. There are people 'who know' who will tell me that valve amplifiers cannot be as good as transistor amplifiers and that transmission lines are the only way to get accurate bass from loudspeakers. Unfortunately I have to go to CES next month and will meet dozens of people 'who know' and who will proudly demonstrate their new mousetrap for me.
..and Guy, how many people you heard about that I considered that “they know”? I do not think grand this title easily…Also, there are reasons why you will not see this person at CES…
 guy sergeant wrote:
My main problem with it was that it lacked clarity. Everything sounded smeared and hazy. It was overly euphonic (tubey) and fundamentally altered the timbre of instruments it set out to reproduce rendering all with the same signature of even order distortion. It also sounded slow and to my ears undynamic.

I can only presume that your particular unit might be defective.
 guy sergeant wrote:
I would like to try to build a equaliser using the Tango EQ600P LCR modules or the S&B equivalent. I heard one once and it did sound very promising.

Yes, I had S&B 600R and it was very good.
 Thorsten wrote:
The EAR834P is such a case. I cannot quite relate either the enthusiam of Romy for the original and my mods.

I think the larger part of my enthusiasm derives not from the fact that I use the 834PTs but the ET2-834PT combo. I never listened 834P without a step-up transformer, unless I used Grado needles, whish I did not do for 5 years… I confirm my enthusiasm about it, thought I would not call it enthusiasm but rather a sense of a complete satisfaction. In addition, and it is to my ear, the ET2-834PT combo dose something that none of know to me phonostages can’t do. What whatever reasons the Expressive Transformer does not perform with other phonostages as effective as it does with 834P
 Thorsten wrote:
S&B now has a 10K version of the same, I'm still waiting for my own, but using a 10K T-Network will make the overall design rather simpler that the 600R Impedance one. From those that have gone out and where phonostages have been build the general effect sonically seems identical to the 600R version.

I was under impression that you already got one. T, please keep me posted about it. I did like the LRC result.


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