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| On Step Ups and the Importance of Managing Gain I thought I saw an excel based calculator out here somewhere that would answer a lot of these questions for a given cart. Punch in output of cart, SUT, Phono, Pre, ect and it would tell you what you needed to stay in "ideal" ranges.Anyone have the... | |
| On Step Ups and the Importance of Managing Gain Question for the group. I think we all agree that it's important to choose wisely when matching a SUT to a specific cart (1:10, 1:20, 1:5, all that good stuff). How do the phono stage manufactures handle this with such a one size fits all approach... | |
| Room acoustics Great thread! Another ++ for Room EQ Wizard, great software. I don't focus so much initially on the frequency response charts. I begin with the waterfall or spectrogram looking for base that is hanging in the room too long. Even a few 6" base trap... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Big kudos to @rhljazz ! After about another 10hrs of break in time the on board phono is sounding pretty sweet! Not "perfect" but sounding much better. Will be interesting to see if if cleans up any more. | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? I was thinking about the break in as being a factor because every time I saw this pre amp setup in the store it always had an outboard plugged into it. Maybe it hasn't been used enough? Or my store knows not to demo the phono... ; ) I will say it ... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? Love to hear that @alonski ! I'm close to ordering a Signiture SE preamp but can't decide if I want to get the internal phono vs buying an outboard. I'm able to in home demo the SE preamp but it doesn't have the phono. I have heard the Ren MKV pr... | |
| VAC Owners:Outboard Phono Stage? @alonski sorry to revive an older thread but this is great stuff! I'm on a similar gear trajectory as yourself. How are you enjoying your VAC gear a few years later? | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! If it helps you, last week I had the C900 in house hooked to a Mac amp and did this exact test as I hate that hiss. Dead quite until volumne on the Luxman went >90% up. Exceptional preamp by the way. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Are you saying that there is no hiss when running the new Luxman Pre with the old Bryston amp? | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! How high is the volume? This should be dead quiet until greater than 90% max volume. Interesting... | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! Nebob, the hiss your hearing from the Luxman is not normal, should sound like the equipment is off between tracks. Does it happen on all sources? | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! We need to find a VAC preamp to join this battle. Would be very interesting to see how it stands up against the bigger brands. | |
| My Long List of Amplifiers and My Personal Review of Each! How would you compare the Luxman 900 preamp to the pass xp-30? |