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| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @georgehifi What your saying makes no sense. No matter how you try to reframe the man's words to fit your imagination of how it works, you can't avoid the fact that the active and passive lines are parallel and share the same ladder. The measureme... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @mrdecibel "First Watt exists because I wanted to explore a variety of amplifier designs in what I think of as neglected areas - amplifiers that might not fit into the mainstream and are probably not appropriate to my more commercial enterprise, P... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @mrdecibel Are you crazy? The man himself makes it clear that the FW amps are weird little amps with very narrow appeal and application. | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @georgehifi You look at the schematic and draw conclusions that don't reflect the reality of the circuit you're looking at. And then you make stupendous claims about how magical it is. There's no way to avoid the fact that anywhere on that ladder ... | |
| bose 501 speakers I have a pair of restored first gen AMT1's. Very respectable speaker in many ways. Vastly better than Bose and most others of the era. | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @georgehifi Give him a break? You're banging on as if this thing is audio divinity. Like so many things he's designed, it's a quirky component with a narrow appeal. Like the Zen amps. Like the F series. Like the SITs. Pretty much all of those prod... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @georgehifi I don't think anyone is trying to call Nelson wrong. But look at his numbers. .2% distortion at a volt? That's not particularly impressive. If I built one, I'd buffer the input. That would get performance way up on it. | |
| Can a power cord increase the resolution of an Class D (SMPS) amp by more than 5% ? @mapman Sound like real bad in-rush current management. | |
| Most musical, enjoyable affordable amplifier I think you're very hard pressed to beat the First Watt amps. You need to choose wisely for what you're driving, but they're extremely nice. | |
| Can a power cord increase the resolution of an Class D (SMPS) amp by more than 5% ? @geoffkait Well, since I don't want cables that act like diodes, I'll avoid their garbage at all cost. | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? @atmasphere The schematic is the one from the service manual. It certainly seems unavoidable that some signal mixing is taking place. And I agree, that impedance is certainly problematic too. | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? @markalarsen Oh.... So your explanation has nothing to do with anything happening inside the cable itself. It only makes a difference if you're running them parallel to other cables, eh? What a crock of crap. https://goo.gl/images/kQp5bB Click ... | |
| Ethernet Cables, do they make a difference? @vtech2000 Stereo Times is one of the most pathetic excuses for audio journalism and commentary I've seen. If you sent them a box of turds with input and output jacks they'd gloat about it. I lost all respect for the veggies writing for them after... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Looks real easy to build though. No unobtainium silicon in there. | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? His wording on the thing makes it clear at 3:00 you're seeing unity gain at the output, and it's clearly a direct connection to the output, but given the other components in parallel with the input to ladder, there's got to be some small loss to b... |