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In the Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser.
Post Subject: Re: HELP: I’m a line-level looser.Posted by Thorsten on: 4/1/2005
Hi,

 Romy the Cat wrote:
All that I need was some kind of vacuum tube buffer that would have no-gain of a very low gain and that would be sonically completely transparent.


Completely transparent is very hard to do.

Try the following:

6AS7 SRPP, 1K Cathode resistors, unbypassed, HT 400V, Shunt Regulated (Gas Tube & KT88 Shunt element or the like).

This comes jolly close to transparent but not entierly. The only thing completely transparent I know is nothing. Even a pair of RCA Jacks and a wire inbetween is not transparent. A TVC comes reasonably close to trasparency (in a bypass test against a wire), closer than any active stage I tried on any account.

Ciao T

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