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In Reply to: RE: Going to try a dirt cheap passive preamp. posted by Opus 33 1/3 on March 08, 2015 at 18:22:47
and it is the best passive I have tried and it is pretty cheap. I got mine upgraded with the caddock resistors but it is a shunt volume control so only the caddock is directly in the signal path.
I prefer it over the transformer based ones I have heard and the stepped resistor based ones as well.
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I use a 1/4 watt metal film resistor in path and a 49k variable to shunt. Works great as a source attenuator to add remote control to pieces that come without it. Like vintage tube gear.
charles
As long as the source has a high enough output I have found this to be the least damaging way to do a passive preamp. We found it suffered compared to a really good active preamp (Einstein "The Tube") with a low output MC cartridge and not enough gain from the phono stage. Put in a high output MC though and it sounded pretty close to the Einstein but a bit less dynamic and not as expansive in the soundstage.
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