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Bi-wire
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Because, apparently, the market(*) demands it ... * I confess, I'm not sure who the 'market' is. On the surface, it should be safe to assume that it's the audio enthusiast who, to my mind, would favour audio purity over convenience but, is there more to it? Perhaps Graham needs to share some of his business experience of this area with us ... |
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Peter
Satisfied user of: Revelation M, PSU1-Enigma, Solo SRGII and lots of CuSat50 |
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ICL1P
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I suspect I won't be in the market for this product, but who knows? FWIW though, I would find remote volume control quite handy, but source switching completely unnecessary. But, let's not forget that at least two of GSP's most loyal supporters are not as mobile as most of us; I think that source switching deserves the serious attention it's being given.
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Ifor
===== Reflex M & ACCESSION M, CuSat50, Majestic DAC, a Proprius pair. |
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BackinBlack
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Just listen, if it sounds good to you, enjoy it.
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CageyH
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Personally, I would like to see a remote volume control at the very least.
Tone controls have no place, but balance can be useful for adjusting your system to the environment. I'm not sure about source switching by remote on a preamp. The idea afaik is to get the signal as pure as possible, hence the availability of passive-pre's. |
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Kevin
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Graham Slee
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I may have found a way to do the source switching in solid state...
I've also been working on a discrete main preamplification stage - needs some running in and possible tweaks before I can comment further. |
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That none should be able to buy or sell without a smartphone and the knowledge in how to use apps
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Ash
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Some transducers have such skewed calibration and altered tonality that they could probably benefit from tone controls.
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We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
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Graham Slee
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There being the 'graphic equaliser technique' of making bass and treble controls, which differ from the usual 'baxendall' configuration (and passives are reserved for valves where hiss doesn't matter), it could be possible to make the preamp 'modular' and provide a bass and treble module as an option.
However what 'you' want out of tone controls, and what 'he' wants out of tone controls, may be different from what 'they' want out of tone controls... Also, if you knew history, you'd know that tone controls were created to correct for record replay in the days before RIAA and before properly preamplified and equalised magnetic cartridges. That's when transducers were really skewed... nobody had heard of computers and smartphones - those who could afford it all had a record player, and there were literally hundreds of different crystal pick up cartridges, all sounding different to one another. Edited by Graham Slee - 26 Jun 2014 at 8:27am |
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