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Post Subject: My preamps revision: New Placette gain buffers.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 6/10/2018
After 13 year of using of
my active Placette my preamp now is undergoing a modification. My knew listening
room is rather on larger side (acoustically) and I am driving the whole system from
super Milq, no help of SS amplification at the lower knee. So, I sometime feel
a need to have a few more DBs of gain, particular running video over my main playback
or listening CD recordings with low dynamic compression. The subjects of having
enough power is a bit more complicated and I would like to live it aside of the
conversation for now as I am care about the gain at this point. The Placette at
full unity gain is not enough for me as time and I was wondering about the
solutions. The aftermarket line-level gain stages are horrible, not that I tried
all of them but a few that I did were a joke.
I learned that Guy Hammel
has a new active buffer that can provide 6dB and 12dB gain. We were discussed it
a bit and I decided to try it. I still do not want to lose the original Placette
active buffers as I feel that are a benchmark of transparency. So, I asked Mr. Hammel
to install in my Placette parallel to the existing original Placette active
buffers then new gain buffers and to make my Placette be able to be switched running
original active buffers or new gain buffers. The new gain buffers have the same
ultra-low output impedance that is mandatory for me to drive my Milq’s filters.
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