pubul57
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| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Anthony, your description of the LSA versus the Audio Consulting, is similar to my impression of the LSA compared the K&K with S&B and BENT w/Slagle AVC - all superb in my system, but the LSA seems to do less, in a good way. I wish I could... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? I would like to test the LSA against the $16,000 Music First Audio Reference Passive. Not sure that is going to happen though. Wonder if it includes an IWC for keeping time. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Disciplined testing? I don't know. Just kept switching between preamps with the same 2-3 "test" tracks for a week, over and over, brought audio buddies over to minimize the possibility I might be hallucinating, and I (we) enjoyed the LSA every bit... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "Would the lay public be able to say "wow, that one sounds SO much better..." I am doubtful." When it comes to preamps, amps with sufficient power to drive the speaker, and cables of any ilk, I would say you are 100% right. The difference between ... | |
| merlin tsm/primaluna? Bobby know his speaker better than anyone, and hard to argue with EL34s, the combos I have tried with them have been superb, and always preferable to 6550 or KT88s with the VSM. Another tube that takes well to the Merlins is the EL84s, which you w... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Terry I have heard that said about power regulation and believe it, my experience too - seems like those old technologies seems to still work pretty darn well:)I do think we are on to something regarding passive and there use with SS versus tubes ... | |
| Ayre AX-7e vs. Belles Reference 150A Haven't seen an Aleph J listed since I sold mine 2-3 years ago - seems folks smarter than me hold on to them. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Terry, what is interesting is the Placette Active that we both used obviously is about as good as it gets on the buffering side - essentially capable of being driven by any source and driving any amp an IC - I too found the Placette and BENT (I us... | |
| What are you 'TRULY' Looking for in Loudspeaker... Isochronism, you really must try 5.1 | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Teajay, I know you have owned a very fine TVC passive, as well as the Placette Active (buffer - no gain) - so you certainly were and might still be open to unity gain in a preamp conceptually. Do you (and Grannyring, et. al.) think that the magic ... | |
| Is no preamp the best preamp of all? Home cooked is live? | |
| What are you 'TRULY' Looking for in Loudspeaker... Honestly, I just don't know. | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? "...fact is, many roads lead to this musical end!"Very true - there will always be a place and purpose for well designed active line stages, and I have no doubt that there will be systems in which they sound much better than any passive might, for... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Interesting you mention Nelson Pass, surely one of the greatest designers in the audio world. He seems to really like the LSA design, at least based on his comments on the DIY thread. Would be nice to have a First Watt Lightspeed/B1, with the abil... | |
| Lightspeed Attenuator - Best Preamp Ever? Especially when you know that an opinion being opined is in fact that of a manufacturer, a dealer, or some other person with a financial interest on the topic - which does not discredit what is being said, but does provide the necessary and expect... |