RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice

Posted by soundsalot (A) on March 27, 2015 at 13:10:36

In Reply to: Thinking of going passive, and need advice posted by cdrayson on March 25, 2015 at 04:45:30:

A good passive is the Axiom assembled by luminousaudio on ebay. They can customize the impedance to your needs, making it match your system. I use an older version, no complaints, never looked back. Perhaps a smidgen less open than a Penny and Giles conductive plastic pot, but good enough for most of us mortals. Ive used it with low output grados 1.5-2.5mv, Nad PP2 set on MM, and KAB rumble filter feeding into different amps without issue. Usually any modest limitation of going passive is preferred to running the signal through additional caps n resistors of an active gain stage. Decades into the audio "hobby", I am glad we finally reached the truth in audio... transparency via quiet, simple circuits, with the passive attenuator eliminating the pesky preamp once and for all.

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Topic - Thinking of going passive, and need advice - cdrayson 04:45:30 03/25/15 (19)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - bigmoose 14:03:28 04/06/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - SgreenP@MSN.com 13:58:33 03/27/15 (1)

Try thinking of passive in a different configuration... - stehno 00:55:46 04/01/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - soundsalot 13:10:36 03/27/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - dvb 10:30:14 03/26/15 (0)

Keep the interconnect cable short - Ralph 14:04:24 03/25/15 (1)

RE: Keep the interconnect cable short - bigmoose 16:09:55 03/25/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - BCR 14:02:04 03/25/15 (8)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - Palustris 10:46:07 03/26/15 (7)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - BCR 11:05:31 03/26/15 (6)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - Ozzy 01:18:19 03/27/15 (1)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - BCR 03:44:46 03/27/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - Palustris 12:08:57 03/26/15 (3)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - BCR 12:33:27 03/26/15 (2)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - Palustris 12:37:00 03/26/15 (1)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - BCR 12:46:30 03/26/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - Dman 13:55:53 03/25/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - fantja 13:49:40 03/25/15 (0)

RE: Thinking of going passive, and need advice - Palustris 10:27:31 03/25/15 (0)

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