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In Reply to: Re: Audio Synthesis Passion vs Pass Aleph P posted by AbeCollins on July 5, 2003 at 00:16:48:

Hi Abe,
As Psgary said, welcome to the passsive world.
The Aleph 3 is indeed low in sensitivity. My customer had a Aleph 5 tested out and the RCA is a bit low. However the balance input increase the sensitivity by 6db so he used an RCA to XLR adaptor and run the ALeph 5 in balance. But I don't think the Aleph 3 has balance in though.
Second, about the cable length myth. If you read my other posts regarding the source driving poweramp and also the post answering argam, you should aware that no matter well you split up the active stage, you end up needing cable unless you are using integrated. If the cable is inferior and degrades the sound thru long run, tell me one reason that why the active can make it sound better if the source analogue output is as competent as the active stage. No, active preamps do not drive long cable better than a competent source/passive combo. Active preamps mask the cable length loss better than a passive. The problem is, high quality I/C don't come cheap and most people using long length I/C are not using the highest quality I/C. Then people shot the wrong horse.
This led to my another argument. Long I/C/short speaker cable vs short I/c/long speaker cable. I think I am one of those from the first wave recommending short I/C / long speaker cable several years ago. It is against most people thought and even against most manufacturers' and audio journalists' recommendation on the website. But my demo started paying off and most of my locate customers agree with what I said. Simply theory, the I/C carries lowest level signal before amplification, any loss thru' lengthy I/C will never be recovered. The speaker cable is carrying high level signal and the loss is much more tolerable. When choosing speaker cable, you should look at poweramp/cable/speaker as a whole since the cable is the interface agent of the poweramp and the speakers. It is the technical complexity of the speaker cable/speaker that challenge the poweramp. So rather than chose the right cable, people thought short speaker cable is better.
Paul Lam
P.L.C.Lam Consulting Inc.

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Topic - Audio Synthesis Passion vs Pass Aleph P - Verbrand 08:26:00 07/04/03 (12)

Audio Synthesis Passion: I'm using the Pro balanced version - DkB 23:52:15 07/06/03 (0)

i agree with you - campy 16:12:50 07/05/03 (1)

Re: i agree with you - Verbrand 16:35:49 07/05/03 (0)

Welcome to the wonderful world of passive preamps - psgary 18:16:23 07/04/03 (0)

Re: Audio Synthesis Passion vs Pass Aleph P - Paul L 08:31:32 07/04/03 (7)

Re: Audio Synthesis Passion vs Pass Aleph P - AbeCollins 00:16:48 07/05/03 (1)

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Re: Audio Synthesis Passion vs Pass Aleph P - Paul L 11:42:07 07/04/03 (3)

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