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Antonio J. wrote:

Thanks for the comments. I believe that a preamp giving the same kind of benefits of Melquiades and being able to deliver them with any power amp and speakers would be something truly great. I know it won't be the same than the amps, but probably something easier to build and try at anyone's system.

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My first objective was to learn how to make a line level to sound fine at unity gain. The first version of 6C19P preamp did it. Now, I am looking to learn how to shape the necessary sound with the preamp. If it dose not make sound better the why it should be used? I might only hope that the techniques that we used in Melquiades would be working in the preamp with the same benefits. It would be interesting to see what would happen with Sound if Sound will be pre-Melquiadized before Melquiadized. :-) Anyhow, something suggests me that at line-level it will be more complex.

You see, there are certain aspects of “spaceal” presentation that I “kind of” know how to get, but there is something else. For instance L2 corrects positioning. After the Melquiades amp (for whatever reasons) there are not frustrations about luck of correct positioning. The musicians in orchestra do not sit anymore at thier “locations”. One again – it is absolutely different presentation with no relativity to “presentational geometry”. Nevertheless, although I do not feel that the L2’s “geometrical talents” are really necessary after Melquiades’ I still would like my preamp be able to handle this task if it wants to. I do not know where I’m gong with this and most likely it will be unnecessary after it will be conquered but I still would love my preamps to have those scales under it’s belt.

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The positions of the instruments are an arteffect of sound reproduction and in real "live" you do not recognize the instruments positioning. You acknowledge thier presents “somewhere there” but you never recognize it as “right” or “left”. The real "SPACE" of “life” musical event is “instantaneously dimensional” and our awareness ever-present at each single particle of the performing space. When you listen "life" music you do not listen first violins and then migrate your listening attention to right where the cellos are. Our listening consciousness performs multitasking, instantaneously sampling space within an unlimited amount of locations, and then instantaneously (and without any hierarchy of events) allows us to experience the sensed. Sound reproduction never furnishes the same opportunity as space presented in reproduction has a hierarchical and sequential pattern. The only sound that I even heard that was very much different from a typical “reproduced Sound” was the sound of Melquiades. I am not kidding: when I said that Melquiades produce VERY DIFFERENT sound I really meant it.

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Anyhow, I do not know what will be happen in the preamp when I enable it to do all that I learned today and I don’t know if some tricks that L2 applies to sound would be beneficial in my preamp (not to mention that I do not know how L2 does it). I anticipate that to making the preamp to sound in the way I visualize sound will be quite complicated journey. I will have some first premature results in a few weeks and I will be posting them…

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