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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote patientot Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Jan 2021 at 6:49pm
Originally posted by CageyH CageyH wrote:

So it is likely to be a completely unbiased review then?

Given that he made a measurement error, if it were my site (which it is not), I would take down any phono preamp review that's been done to date until things can be remeasured properly.

Leaving up bad info does no one any favors. I doubt this will happen though. 

IMHO, the site grew too quickly and he ended up with piles of equipment to measure. Rushing through it all, combined with his lack of familiarity with measuring phono preamps, means you end up with mistakes. 

That's my 2 cents on the situation. 

And yeah the peanut gallery there needs much better moderation. 
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From my own tinkering and taking lots of things apart I learned that not needing all the parts to put it back together doesn't make you cleverer than the manufacturer. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing and I have certainly had that 'doh!' moment quite a few times.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Godra Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13 Jan 2021 at 10:27pm
This kind of misinformation happen too often on audio related web site or on Youtube. The worst is nobody can't do anything about it. Before publishing something, people should double (triple!) check. They should also identify potential shortcoming (Hey! I'm not used to test these components :P). And finally, they should also think about the possible consequences of what they report. 
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+0.5dB, is that all? I'm over the moon with that!

+0.5dB at 40Hz, it should be 17.8dB up, so that makes it 18.3dB up.

Add the gain of 62dB, and the gain at 40Hz should be 79.8dB, but it's 80.3dB. What's that in linear gain?

It should be 9,772.37221, but it's 10,351.42167.

( 10,351.42167 / 9,772.37221) - 1 = 0.059 or 6%. That's 6% out at a frequency where it's hardest to hear any difference at all. 6% out right next to the low-frequency extreme!

1dB is the quietest difference in sound level that can be reliably noticed and is usually tested at mid frequencies where the ear has sufficient sensitivity. 0.5dB at 40Hz will never be heard even in a double-blind test.

This is analogue circuitry, not digital. I'll repeat that linear gain; 10,351.42167. Cumulative error built up in a resistor-capacitor network. Was it same in both channels? He doesn't say. If identical, then I'm even more over the moon!

Does he call +0.5dB bass boost? The RIAA standard allows 2dB end to end. With the amplification required for MC, most knowledgeable users would be in hysterics by now.

OK, so he reckons that 0.5dB of error proves the inclusion of a rumble filter?

No, there is an input capacitor to block the bias current from polarising the cartridge. It has its own high pass turnover, which will always interact with any nearby filter pole. Below the 20Hz low end of the RIAA spec, the frequency response goes back down, but it doesn't attempt to remove rumble and warp frequencies. It will do a darned sight better than a DC-coupled input, which would continue gain where it is least wanted, and displace the cantilever.

If this was the analogue output of a digital player, then an 0.5dB error could be called sloppy because there is either unity signal gain or maybe 8dB at the most. Contrast that with the Reflex C circuit at 80dB gain, and that's bloody-good control!

We are assuming his inverse RIAA response is accurate. When we got our APX525, James Kelly told us they didn't do any RIAA presets. Maybe that's different now? If not, then the inverse RIAA has to be a third party. Still, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt.

But there is one glaring error I've not thrown in yet, and that's the -3dB loading on the AP's generator. Might be sufficient to result in the 0.5dB.

Either way, I'm happy, and I stand by my products' quality. Mr. Amir, you could have asked; I'm an easy-going decent sort of a guy. Instead, you decided you knew it all. Poor judgment?
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I know I would not be able to hear half a db of difference in the bass region. 

I figured he was dead wrong about the rumble filter. Thanks for explaining all this. 
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FWIW, you may have seen the thread I started on Class D Amplification.

Having borrowed the loaner propriuses and been impressed I wanted to listen to a modern class D amplifier to see what one sounded like before I parted with what for me is a sizeable sum.

I managed to borrow a power amp that impressed the folk on ASR for a couple of weeks.  To be fair to it, in stereo power amp form it cost significantly less than a pair of Propriuses.  Plus points were a very low noise floor, excellent dynamic range and good control of the bass.  Negative points were a thin and wirey treble and mid range and flat, almost 2d imaging on all the sets of speakers I tried it with.  

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Continuation from previous post...

Worse still from the same sources it presented a fraction of the detail presented with such clarity by the propriuses.  In that respect it was also trumped by a twenty year old marantz amp I bought on eBay to tide me over when my last decent amp died.

Clearly there seems more to measuring the performance of an amplifier than applying some test tones and some measuring equipment to it.

I know I have middle aged ears which may be not as good as they were and are possibly used to listening to inaccurate amplifiers but they listen to live music which sounds much more like what I hear from the marantz and the propriuses than the beautifully measuring class D amp.
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