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RE: burson audio op amps

As far as I'm concerned, I've had sensible jumps in sound quality from the smallest tweaks and improvements (for exemple, replacing a 1" jumper in my speakers passive crossover with a piece of solid copper resulted in a cleaner, smoother, and more open high range, but it took me 6 years before I thought of doing it)

...I guess it has become a fact that everything the signal has to go trough gives a color to the sound, substracts, detracts, distorts... even the material your preamp's PCB is made of, the quality of the CINCH sockets, not the mention the uber-obvious cables.

I don't know for sure, but to me it seems logical that a discrete opamp should sound better because of its construction. That's how I see things: take the same schematic, the same circuit - the "operation amplifier", you either squeeze everything in a chip the size of a flea, or you give the same circuit space to breathe, proper tracks, proper transistors. I'm no engineer, but as an audiophile, it seems logical that the discrete version would sound better.

I don't see why I would spend generous (if not crazy) amounts of cash on cables and have my signal go trough this bottleneck.
70$ might be steep compared to 3$, but if you think of it differently (it's an active device made of a vertain number of smaller components) it looks more reasonable to me than a pair of nordost interconnects. I mean, I'm an audiophile on the cheap, but what in hell is 70$ (multiplied by a factor of 6 or 10 even) compared to all the rest in the audio(phile) world?


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