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| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? @tweak1 using active or passive PP is definitely a personal choice basis on own sensibility and perceptions. Anyway PP should be simple, minimalist, few components but highly selected, maching and quality, good pcb, psu, connectors, knobs, selecto... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? @ tweak1yes. Modern gears should have not such kind of noise, especially If balanced. Could be exception with phono when good cartridge and wiring are very “sensitive” to any kind of noise. It is importsnt also to ensure correct impedance matching... | |
| Which material sounds better for speakers construction? Wood, Ply or MDF? Aluminum is good material but a) need to be calculated to be low resonant and suitable for loudspeaker b) need dedicated tools, not suitable for DIY c) expEnsive. Natural Wood is good but only with heavy thk. Also need good practice and suitable t... | |
| How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp? Less than 2k. Try “AM Audio”, state of art building, perfect matching and quality selected components, no capacitors into sound routing, dual mono, dual power supply, quality strong metal construction, gold-plated pcb... just volume and inputscope... | |
| Have Passive Preamps Finally Come of Age? Question is not which pre-amp but why there is floor noise:a) bad or wrong wiring?b) one element Is damaged.so to rebuilt piece by piece the system and everything will go in the right way. Could be the pre-amp but also something else. Personally i... | |
| GLANZ MFG 610LX @ Chakster,dears, i am going to build a reference turntable but using vintage items only... I bought a SME3009 IIIs tonearm and a great piece of black granite .. needs the motor and plate.. I went in the deposit where I know there is a boxed blaup... |