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Romy, would you say that placette is especially sensitive to electricity to function at it's best(sensitive in relation to other equipment I mean)? My unit is 110v and I am in 220v world, so I am using a step-down transformer on the unit. I have had...
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Attentuators plugged directly into the RCA jacks sounds like good solution for balance control, though I will check Placette first for cost of adding second remote controlled sensor, thanks romy....
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I have had a Placette Active for some 5 years now and it was quite a revelation when I put it in my system. According to Guy Hamel one of its most important features is its powerful op-amp output stage with an output impedance of 10 ohms. Since I hav...
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That is truly great and IO would like to express one more time my esteem to active Placette preamp.
I play with 3 tuners and multiple stereo decoder options trying to gig out the minute differences and aspect of sound of those units. It is a pure an...
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But I thought the core of the Placette is passive, with a buffered output, no gain?How could this work at all?Best regards,Paul S...
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Anthony, congrats on your amazing progress! I know how hard it is to carve out time for this stuff! I see you are looking for gain from your pre-amp, which makes me wonder if you have been using the passive Placette, as opposed to the active unit, wh...
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Glad to hear you finally went and did IT! Now let's see (hear) how buffered per-channel level-set resistance works with the per-channel curves, and how easy this is to tune and integrate per total (stereo) side. It seems like this pretty much "has t...
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Romy,Does your Placette have a custom input impedance of 42K ohms rather than the stock 18K ohms input impedance?...
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Just a brief note on my recent addition: Placette Active preamp. Due to a recent purchase of Tannoy Golds, I had the opportunity to pull an old McIntosh SS amp out of the closet recently. This amp has gain controls, so I tried running it ...
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I did not use or know anyone who uses anything by Borbely but Placette basically is the same idea – a discrete op-amp. It has also a proprietary switchable voltage divider and assembling is “made for transparency”. If not Placette then I still would ...
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Placette when last week back to Guy Hammel for “revision”. Despite of a truly phenomenal result with bass and dynamics my new version of Placette has one characteristic at HF that I feel was terminally incorrect. We presume that we know how to ad...
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[quote user="anthony"]I have brought the Placette Active Linestage back into the room.[/quote]This comparison is proving more difficult than anticipated. Inconsistent results between subject tracks have given me some doubt on just what I have been h...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Romy, would you say that placette is especially sensitive to electricity to function at it's best(sensitive in relation to other equipment I mean)? My unit is 110v and I am in 220v world, so I am using a step-down trans...
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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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[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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I do not know why Placette
does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the
case then you might have too low gains in your front end. All my front ends
have very high gain: Bidat, Lavry, my...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Be sure to connect the chassis of only ONE audio component to the dedicated ground, allowing the other audio components to source ground via the interconnects.[/quote]
I am very convinced that in Adrian case he has more t...
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[quote
user="anthony"] You can see the little 2-way standmounts that I am
currently listening to behind which are the 'wings' onto which I will build the
DSET. [/quote]
This is perfectly fine but
if you willing to experiment with any low pow...
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That is truly great and IO would like to express one more time my esteem to active Placette preamp.
I play with 3 tuners and multiple stereo decoder options trying to gig out the minute differences and aspect of sound of those units. It is a pure an...
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[quote
user="anthony"]Well, probably not up in smoke, but it is just not
functional any more. I was away for a few days and came back to my room
to find the Placette refusing to change volume or select a source input, so
something is amiss. Per...
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Now that all three are on the same absolute polarity and have been listened to quite a bit I thought it time to write down my impressions. From least preferable to most:
(3) Neurochrome Universal Buffer set to inve...
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OK, got the Placette from the second round of "modification", it took 15 second to confirm that the HF problems that I sniffed out was not there anymore – so the absolute transparency is back to the business and this time the word “absolute” could be...
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Not that I have a lot of patience for audio, but I finally ran out my allotment for the effing shielded phono cables when the clock sounded 12 before I figured out a quiet grounding scheme. On the up side, I cleaned and re-greased all the contacts f...
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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="George"] Recently I had a brainstorm (very small) and bounced it off Guy (who is a terrific person to talk to) and he thought it would be worth trying. Since I was driving such a relatively long length of RCA cable (thus subject to noise...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"]Attentuators plugged directly into the RCA jacks sounds like good solution for balance control[/quote]Do not forget that you do not need the attenuators but juts one attenuator that you would plug on right OR on left. Also,...
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[quote user="manisandher"] But can't you simply take the tape out from your Placette and plug it into the Pacific's analog inputs? I'm assuming that the Placette has, in addition to its variable output, a fixed output...[/quote] Yes, I have thought...
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Hi Romy,I was wondering if you put in any other preamps while your placette was away for mods? I decided to take mine out of my system temporarily (just to mimic you 8-) ), and put back in an old custom made tube preamp. Well it is very interesting...
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Yes, the "tape (or "monitor") loop" is where I (and everyone else...) always put them.Why not ask Guy how he would approach it, maybe get one-stop shopping and probably the best results, too, for both the "loop" and the "box".Would "passive" curves m...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]However, over the years I have seen
that the low voltage adapter get weaker and impact the remote control functionality.
Also, the type of the low voltage adapter I used did have very profound impact
to sound, which abso...
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