New preamp, loss of low freq.?

I will be getting new cables, I called klaus at odyssey with money ready to spend, he said not til 1 week from now, he's going on holiday. Son of a ........I get ready and now I have to wait longer. My 1m pair are stretched very tightly from amp to preamp as it is, which is why I wanted to order the 1.5m Groneberg from klaus asap




i hooked up an old toshiba sd-4000 dvd player to use as a source, and mother fuc**** the bass is in full force.   I was using my iPods at 128k to play through the preamp, and at 128k, I'm sure a lot of the low and highs have been left out during the sync to the iPod. I'm such a dipsh*t. Don't yell at me, it didn't hit me until I played some megadouche (peace sells), and some helstar (king of hell) cd's, the bass was massive, and so was everything else.  Mercyful Fate is insane good now. 

Also, the pioneer elite dv-48 I was using as a source, was giving me some very audible static noise from tweeters, why, I don't know, I pulled it, and now %85 of static is gone. Only a small bit of the same static noise is audible, maybe from house ac line, I don't know. 
 
I will be getting a new CD player, most likely the NAD 565 for my source, my last CD player purchase was the acurus acd-11 which shows the last time I bought equipment, and the B&K pro 10 mc also back in early 90's.   I am sure bass is back, as I played some same songs I played from iPod, and played the cd, and night and day difference.  I am such a moron!

i am still investigating the bass issue, as I'm not completely sure a good source is absolute, I'll be back.........

Hi George, I have a EE design question.
When no output coupling cap is used, can't DC be outputted into the SS amp? In tube to tube, this isn't a problem, but what about DC transients from a tube pre entering a SS amp when the design of the amp's input stage is unknown?

In our case here, we don't know if the amp is DC coupled. Is it standard to use a capacitor to block DC in modern SS amps?

An iPod at 128k ?

arctikdeth, I'm losing respect for you.

Many power amps use servo on DC (very  low frequency NFB), that might become unstable with low input frequencies.  For that reason amplifier's low frequency is often limited (in my amp to 5Hz).

Hahahaha. Nooooooooooo

 I know, I know, I'm a full on dipsh*t.  Live & learn. 

Happened years ago, when I didn't know about lossless, aac, what the fu*k a nitrate even was.  So I have all my cd's, and many of my lp's ripped to my iTunes, at AAC (256) I didn't know what it all meant, now I do, it sounds great anywhere else, except for my main rig, where its resolution is bad when played through very good equipment. 

It it took me several years to import all my cd's into iTunes, that in itself is another mess I'm not talking about. 

Im not reimporting 3000 cd's and all my LP rips now all on taiyo yuden cd-r's.  Back to iTunes, will take longer as I'm not as hung ho anymore.  So I'm gonna live with the 256 versions. I will re arrange your iTunes, put all the live stuff, so I can load iPod back at 256 k, and not the 128 I was using. Hopefully this will help a little. We moved, so all my cd's are in boxes after 1 year, I hate it, but no room to display them anymore.