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RE: So much confusion

Posted by Say on May 17, 2011 at 13:57:32:
Thanks for the support of my honest and personal opinion waj4all.

Regarding trailing edges, one thing I did notice and still do is that tubes will do that better than my TVC in comparison. Not that the passive is a slouch in that department but all of my active preamps did have the trailing effect in spades. Here is the kicker, with a decent tube amp the passive will allow trailing edges to flourish. It just won't create more by itself. Thus if a solid state amp is used down goes the trailing edge too.

As for leading edges I would rate the TVC as good but not best. Mabye its the transformers that take a millisecond or too off the timing. I don't really know. Therefore speed will be sacrificed a smidgeon and, thus, sustained decay only when...the amp is poor in that one area.

We have tradeoffs with each. Its down to a matter of choice and synergy one can get with what one has. With the Apogee speakers I can get the TVC (passive) to sing and give a rather good effort in the 0-60 sweepstakes yet even the Golden Tube preamp (active) was no slouch in that department either. The Vac even better.