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If you have the gain,a passive is the next best thing to straight wire.Hit the nail on the head, it’s the most transparent/dynamic/uncolored way of getting the sources signal to the poweramp/s Quote from Nelson Pass Cheers George |
@georgehifi I have sent you an email asking for pricing info for the Lightspeed Attenuator. A friend and I will test it seeing as though the reviews have been rave. Excellent work, George. Incredibly excellent work. However, when I am having a party (I have them quite often) and would like to change among sources, it would be great to have a passive tube preamp that can accomplish this. I have read about the Schiit Freya among others. Would you make any recommendations? Thanks so much for your time. |
I own the original version of the Schiit Freya and it can switch immediately (the newer Freya + "improved" version shuts off the tubes when one of the other outputs, passive or FET, are utilized...so you have to wait for the tubes to warm up if switched) between the 3 modes...passive sounds fine but the tube mode sounds better for my tastes. Just more "there" there. Switching among modes keeps the tubes honest since if you notice a degradation of some sort with the tube mode you simply replace the tubes. |
@georgehifiSent with mandatory propaganda attachments. And yes as Wolf points out the Freya is a great universal unit, I have recommended it many a time here on Audiogon. As for a passive though the transparency/dynamics of the Lightspeed has no equal, as there are no contacts in the signal path in the circuit. https://ibb.co/XbCsn2B Cheers George |
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