First impression: Herron VTPH-2A phono preamp
Awesome! It’s a small world, as the saying goes.Yeah, I don’t know if you know this but Kim (who owns Deqx) was the co/inventor of the first Fairlight Synthesizer back in 1979. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlPCpSmhRM Here's a pic of a young Kim Ryrie https://www.mixonline.com/.image/t_share/MTUxNDIwMTI5OTI3MTc3NDQ2/509techof11gif.gif Cheers George |
@georgehifi So you had enough volume with the passive even though you had a very low 0.24mV MC cartiridge, you didn’t have >100db horn speakers? also what was your amps gain or sensitivity? And the VP1 is the same gain and even higher output impedance. George..I have a lot of volume on tap as it sits. My speakers are not all that efficient @ 87.5 db or something like that, they are Revel F52. I had everything spec wise when I was looking for a buffer but I may have tossed them. The amp is an ATI 3002 |
scmThanks for that info. There you go Al, even with .24mV MC and 87db speakers plenty of volume on tap. And the ATI amp seems to be 1.8v sensitivity. Your calculations have a hicup somewhere. Cheers George |
@georgehifi What really seemed to help was adding the tube buffer. The volume level on the numeric display was usually maxed out at about 54-56 by..."maxed out" I mean what I felt was loud enough. Now though the display shows 40-42 for the same level. I think I can flex the walls if I wanted to, there seems to be a lot of pedal left :) |
