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RE: Passives

Personally, I don't think there are any benefits to passives compared to expensive high-end active preamps. I've never owned a passive, but I have listened with my active preamp removed. All the power amplifiers I've owned over the past 30-years have had attenuators on their inputs making it very easy to connect a source component directly to the amplifier without using a preamp. I have done this on several occasions just to evaluate whether or not my preamp was degrading sound quality. I never though eliminating the preamp improved sound quality. There was always a slight difference, but I never thought the sound was necessarily better without the preamp.

Anyway, it's pretty easy to test even if you don't have attenuators on your power amplifier. It's easy to fabricate a simple resistive voltage divider so you can connect your CD player or your phono stage directly to your amplifier and listen for yourself.

Best regards,
John Elison

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