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In Reply to: RE: I tend to disagree posted by waj4all on May 15, 2011 at 22:35:22:
"I've come to realize that many audiophiles are very set in their ways, some would tend to want to string you up from the nearest tree, if you disagree with them."
I've tried no-passive, several passive linestages, and several active linestages so I hope you don't place me in that "set in their ways" category. Nope, not me. I've played with various combinations and have listened for myself.
"The only reason for a physical 'passive' unit is to provide a means of attenuation (thus the cause of the only differences between them) but the ultimate (in 'passive') is no pre-amp - nothing, and no name-brand passive unit can be better than that - nothing. Didn't you know that? Or are you 'uninformed'?"
Given that you cannot run "nothing" in a real world system the comments above make no sense at all. Would you ever run your CD player directly into a power amp if it didn't have a built-in volume control (variable attenuator) of some sort ? I hope not.
Given that you cannot run full-out w/o an attenuator, then it stands to reason that the attenuation must come in the form of attenuating components either within the CD player or an outboard passive linestage.
What's the difference? Could be a big difference depending on the quality of the internal attenuator components or the external attenuator. There are sonic differences among attenuators whether they be internal or external. Just the same, there are sonic differences among the different brands of external passive linestages.
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Follow Ups
- RE: I tend to disagree - AbeCollins 23:25:44 05/15/11 (4)
- RE: I tend to disagree - waj4all 00:08:30 05/16/11 (3)
- Sooo... - DAVID 15:07:31 05/16/11 (0)
- Troll - AbeCollins 06:38:58 05/16/11 (1)
- Yep - promoting his own web site that's as bad as it gets. I'd be ashamed. N/T - carcass93 10:41:57 05/16/11 (0)
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