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RE: How low do we have to go???

I'm not sure everyone else grasped that you are talking about phono, and not an amp in general. Is that correct?

In the case of a phono, most information below 10Hz is absolute garbage - surface rumble and warp dominate that spectrum. I find that only the most pristine LPs sound clean without at least 6db/octave rolloff below 20hz. Some are better off with 12db/octave

Sure, instantaneous transients go much lower, but those super-low frequency transients are almost DC, and largely make it past the high pass filter anyway.

So, if you're just talking about a phono stage here, if you're flat to 9hz, I'd say you're fine. That's only my opinion, though...


-SF



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