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Need passive aggressive advice
Hello
To scratch an itch of mine I purchased a preowned Placette passive device and now I'm hooked!
Passives are very system dependent as we all know but I'm stoked on what its doing, or should I say, not doing in my Horn/300B system,
Since I can't leave well enough alone, I'm looking at more "modern" passive designs and have narrowed it down to three of them.
1) latest from Tortuga
2) " The Truth" from the Horn Shoppe
3) Axiom with Walker mods
All with remote. A MUST for me.
I'm assuming that they will all surpass the vishay placette in transparency. ASSUMING.
Appreciate any and all suggestions/comments/alternatives.
Thanks for your time
Emil
To scratch an itch of mine I purchased a preowned Placette passive device and now I'm hooked!
Passives are very system dependent as we all know but I'm stoked on what its doing, or should I say, not doing in my Horn/300B system,
Since I can't leave well enough alone, I'm looking at more "modern" passive designs and have narrowed it down to three of them.
1) latest from Tortuga
2) " The Truth" from the Horn Shoppe
3) Axiom with Walker mods
All with remote. A MUST for me.
I'm assuming that they will all surpass the vishay placette in transparency. ASSUMING.
Appreciate any and all suggestions/comments/alternatives.
Thanks for your time
Emil
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I use to have the Placette active linestage (it had a unity gain buffer that made it active). I heard it against the passive and I liked the active version more because it sounded more dynamic. I've also heard a light dependent resistor-based passive that was operated by remote control. It was pretty good sounding, although, it was bettered by a tube-based active in a mini shootout conducted by a friend. The one that has me curious is the remotely controlled autoformer passive made by Dave Slagle. I like transformer-based passives, but, most have too few volume steps and are not remote controllable. Slagle's unit has many small steps, remote control and a balance control. I believe he sells his unit through a company called MyEmia. I've heard systems he put together for shows that sounded quite good, but, I haven't actually tried one in my system. |
I have no experience with passives but don't forget Goldpoint Level Controls. They've been around for a long, long time and they won't break the bank either. They use a stepped attenuator which can be noisy so proceed with caution. 🤔 All the best, Nonoise |
BTW, I asked Schiit if they have plans to introduce HT bypass in a future. This is an answer " All of our preamps offer true home theater bypass. Just plug in your processor's front channels to any input, select Passive mode, and turn the volume all the way up. Presto! 1:1 home theater bypass, with only a relay in the signal path." I believe this is extremely rude reply, and they consider their customers as complete idiots. Paints their company in a very bad light. |
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