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In Reply to: RE: New preamp, so far so good out of the box posted by bullethead on January 04, 2017 at 08:33:32
Good Lord man, organize those wires! Now that the "Wiring Police" rant is over...
What were you using before and what does the STP-SE do better? Inquiring minds want to know :)
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I was using a Bel Canto Pre3 that I bought used on eBay and had for about a decade. It was getting long in the tooth.
I needed balanced outputs and inputs, as well as analog outputs and inputs and this Wyred 4 Sound has both, and two sets of balanced outputs and two sets of analogue outputs. Two sets of balanced inputs, and three sets of analog inputs. I have a Gallo sub amp for the second voicecoil of my speakers that needs analog outputs, and my amp is balanced only.
I am not sure it does anything better in my mind compared to Bel Canto, it does sound more defined and elite but I can't comment honestly right now because I just got it. Manual says 200 hours before settling,
Nice pic of those Cables- bullethead.
give me a run-down of the brands that you are using in the pic?
a happy family of kimber, gutwire, nordost, audioquest, blue jeans, and shunyata, perhaps some others but I forgot the names off the top of my head.mainly the XLRs are silver core, including the AES connection which is a Kimber Illuminations Orchid, Nordost speaker cable is silver, audioquest mostly interconnects and I love the audioquest diamond toslink I am using. blue jeans is a backup spdif, mainly use audioquest VDM-5 for spdif.
shunyata zitron cobra for power, to be honest I think the power is very important, I changed the outlet to hospital grade as well. using analysis plus oval 9 for the second voice coil for my speakers from the gallo amp to power down to 22hz for the bass.
The main chain is silver from XLR out from DAC to preamp and as well as XLR to amp to the output speaker cable which is also silver. I get a very neutral sound. Not bright at all, not as dull as copper wire, no coloration that I can hear, but perhaps I am used to it by now.
please excuse my run on sentences, I hope this makes sense, I am exhausted right now and not feeling too well.
Edits: 01/04/17
It goes to show that a hodge/podge of Cabling can work!
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