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RE: good points, but benefits outweigh problems IF you know how to implement one

"If you know what you are doing you can choose components and interconnect them in a way that allows you to eliminate the buffer. If you don't then you can choose a line stage."

Oh that's funny, even though it's true. Usually saying that someone doesn't "know what they are doing" is an insult, but in this case it's literally true for most of us most of the time. I have NEVER seen seen anything audio specified to the point where I really know clearly what it's input and output characteristics are in and out of band. But if I have a thang that I do know that can be inserted in the path that tends to make the other ends 'don't cares', well, that has some appeal...

Somehow having a local chain of amplifiers-attenuators-amplifiers-attenuators... just doesn't seem like an optimum approach for getting the best S/N.

Regards, Rick


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