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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET
Post Subject: Active for surePosted by anthony on: 8/5/2020
 Paul S wrote:
Anthony, congrats on your amazing progress! I know how hard it is to carve out time for this stuff! I see you are looking for gain from your pre-amp, which makes me wonder if you have been using the passive Placette, as opposed to the active unit, which I understood has +6 dB, not to mention a VERY low, locked output impedance. What I am getting from Romy is that a constant, very low output impedance from the pre-amp is as critical for driving your Milqs properly as the input voltage. Not to steer you toward greater expense, but it would be a shame to put out all the time and effort building a pre-amp only to wind up with a reactive situation, where your channels' crossovers are in constant flux. With all the complexity of the greater circuit here, it would be nice to start with pre-amp output locked down. But perhaps you've already considered this fully with the design you're working on?


Best regards,
Paul S

Hi Paul,

Yes, I definitely have the Active Placette linestage, but it is unity gain only.  I have talked to Guy about sending it over to him to add a bit of gain but have not progressed on that front.  Freight over the Pacific and back will be significant, especially these days, and I am not 100% convinced it is the best option for me.  It may be the best option in the end but I would like to try to sort out my own preamp incarnation to see what I can achieve.  There are several features that I would like to build into my diy pre that are not available on the Placette:  HT bypass, switch between SS and DHT gain/line stages, networking options etc.  It will be the hub of my system.

Anthony

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