rothwell attenuators..effect on sound?

I use them between my pre-amp and amp and have not heard any discernable effect on sound quality other than lower volume. I would recommend them if your goal is to reduce gain.

Chuck

Does anyone know where one could get those in-line RCA housings that are used by Rothwell? If I've already selected the type and value resistors that I want to use I'd like to be able to build my own.

thanks for the input guys. i thought initially that i would buy a cd player with volume control to get around this excess gain issue. but now i am considering in-line rca attenuators if i buy a cd player with a fixed output level. looks like i have more options, a beautiful thing!

broussard, i did notice those goldenjacks on e-bay. if i remember right, he has -14db pairs. does he charge more for those?

Paul

Paul,

The price difference would be small, if any.

Send him an email. I found him to be very responsive.

It looks like he has changed to a slightly different exterior since I bought mine.

I continue to be quite sastified with them.

Regards,

Brady

I am wondering if anyone has discovered mechanical faults with the evs inline jobs? The repeated mechanical disturbances from volume control, seem to translate right to the center pin of the RCA jack.

Back to the OP: I am also interested in finding blank/clam-shell XLR's for my own purposes...anyone know of a source...and I have also been curious about the effect on sound quality. It's interesting that one has reported an increase in "warmth", i guess this means maybe the noise floor may raise, or in this particular implementation that this user reports, there may be an interaction with input capacitance such that the higher frequencies are slightly attenuated...although warmth for some means the presence region (~1kHz-3kHz) is attenutated, and dull highs for another means the upper treble region is attenuated (w.r.t. rest of spectrum).
go figure.