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In the Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET
Post Subject: Very interesting.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/28/2019
Ok, thanks for explaining. I
few things I would like to note.
If your preamp, being
incorporated between you front-end and you power amps degrades sound in any way
or does not make sound better then it is not a good preamp. Period, there is no
way look at the things differently. I personally
did not experience the situation when Placette failed in term of
transparency but it does not mean it might happen out there. I feel in a way challenged
and a bit stumbled and I have no idea why Placette would not be transparent. If Phasure has
some kind of new definition of transients then Placette is so fast that
it runs video signal (!), it should be able to accommodate whatever is pushed
to it at audio level. So, I minorly doubt your and Peter conclusions but I also
live a room for me being wrong. I might live some room to challenge your judgments
about the “details” you feel Phasure outputs. I
have seen it before and was tripped a few times myself. However, you comment
about decolorization of sound by Placette and whitening out what Phasure outputs is very serious charge that has no room
for any interpretation or challenge. Hypothetically I would like to try
your Phasure to confirm that it can stress Placette.
I do not need a DAC and I will not make efforts to try it but if Phasure will be walking next to me then I might.
My experience with finding a transparent
preamp, very much as Phasure’s Peter experience as you can see are very alike:
most of the preamps ruin sound. So, entering your idea to build you own you will
have a very difficult challenge. I am not kidding but I am estimate that it
will be more difficult then to build Milq/Macondo as you will be walking to unexplored
territory. If I were in your shoe and if I have no confidence in the Placette performance then I would most certainly work with your Peter asking his with a solution make his DAC output
at least 3 Volts. Peter should be consistent and reasonable in his hate. If he
hates preamps so much then he should not advocate DACs that outputs 0.6V. No power
amps will be happy with 0.6V!
I need to say that I am not exactly
understand the Phasure ecosystems. It is DAC that works only from software
player and if it so then why no one talk about the sources of the material that
is being played. There is a huge difference between ripped CD and raw digital
files, how the files were ripped and many other subjects. I do not understand
the notion of volume control at software and DAC level and many other things. Not
that I need to but I would certainly would like any attention at digital level
to be wide open. It sounds to me that Phasure has SS chip in the output and
this is where you can experiment. There are new op amps out there that reportedly
good you can play with them; I so feel that the absolute transparency you will
find at SS level not at tube level.
Rgs,
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