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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
“Do you hear the people singLost in the valley of the night?It is the music of a peopleWho are climbing to the light.”Les Miserables PREFACE I would like do not shape this article as a review: I do not write “reviews” religiously and I have many re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: The need for a balanced buffer stage by gurevise on 2018-12-01 
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Ideally, you'd want to drive 35 feet of balanced interconnect with the low impedance source ( say below 150 ohms or so). How low depends upon interconnect capacitance. You can try Jensen output transformer to convert SE to Balanced at the phono-stage...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: "Tube Buffer" by Paul S on 2014-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shopping for DSD Converters? Here's One From the Lampizator.... in Audio News  18 Replies 
For better or for worse, I also tend to think of the "tube buffer" as a gimmick. I wonder if one of our readers has an idea, what are the benefits of the tubes used in this case? Why not a discrete version of the op amp, or just a decent modern op a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1837: Batteries as Supplies and Buffer by Paul S on 2022-08-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
Not sure if the big Tesla Powerwall batteries are Li (I suppose they are), but the best battery I've actually tried is a big dry cell, best because it can (apparently) survive and continue to function indefinitely just sitting there for months on end...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Air caps?Buffer? by N-set on 2011-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Did you try just for test to increase the caps value that short the plate to ground? Will it amount and the character of the noise change? [/quote]Just like one would expect: 0.1uF shorting cap gives approx 4x more ham than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The need for a balanced buffer stage by noviygera on 2018-11-28 
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In my situation there is a missing link between my single ended phono stage and my balanced active crossover. Between them is 35ft. of interconnect. The missing link is indicated with "?" in the sketch.What I need is one single-ended input, some atte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #12: Re: A white buffer flag? by Alex Yakovlev on 2005-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
I never had a chance to play with various preamplifiers in a very high-resolution system, but all the attempts that I've made with my system at home are constantly returning the same result - passive linestages seems to be the most accurate one....

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer #2...? by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-23 
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If you remember it was the way how it started:    HELP: I’m a line-level looser.Then there was this one: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunneland course then it lead to the following: Reviewing preamps by imbeciles.it is r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: Buffer as Much as You Can by Paul S on 2010-06-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s Midbass Project – the grown up time. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  455 Replies 
May I at least ass-u-me that you plan to high pass these horns? If so, go ahead and figure that in, too. In any case, just looking at 70', impedance is not the only number you'll be running up, and the last place you want this load is for LF chan...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: In your buffer quest by Wojtek on 2007-12-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunnel in Audio Discussions  36 Replies 
did you (or anybody else ) by any chance try Erno Borbely discrete op-amp based buffers? They are  J-fet based kits from EU , not as expensive as Placette but not quite cheap either . Regards, L...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: A white buffer flag? by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-31 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: HELP: I’m a line-level looser. in Audio Discussions  22 Replies 
Yes, you might be on something in here. Although I used the best possible coupling caps of large values but still from point of view LF it was never “there”, even close. I also played with regulations and PS and sumized that the PS were not the reaso...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #45: Transparency by anthony on 2020-08-10 
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[quote user="anthony"]I also have another SS pre just arrived with has been measurebated into existence with measured spec's difficult to confirm with the best measuring equipment getting about.[/quote]I've been listening to the new buffer with imd/t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Dima's time alignment machine. by Romy the Cat on 2006-09-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Evaluation of tractrix curves based on visual surface reflec... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
The Dima’s idea of delaying the modulated signal still not in the auditable format. As I understand he designed the circuit and we get all parts we need but it moves forwards slow. The devise will have modulator, delay mechanism, demodulator and outp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: I was running yesterday the prototype... by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The ultimate buffer #2...? in Audio Discussions  3 Replies 
.... of “the buffer transparent” and it does not look as transparent at all. The buffer adds some very minor dynamic compression, very-very minor transient’s corruption, some overlaying sense of grayness and generally if has more fatter sound th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The ultimate buffer #2...? by Romy the Cat on 2006-11-23 
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If you remember it was the way how it started:    HELP: I’m a line-level looser.Then there was this one: The ultimate buffer – light in the end of a tunneland course then it lead to the following: Reviewing preamps by imbeciles.it is r...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Making sense of no sense by Paul S on 2007-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
Like I said, musical bass via the TAP does not thin out at all before my BR bins roll it off; but that's as much as I can say at this point.  And (against conventional logic) the TAP certainly does much better bass than any active LS I...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #48: Polarity? by anthony on 2020-08-13 
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[quote user="anthony"]I have brought the Placette Active Linestage back into the room.[/quote]This comparison is proving more difficult than anticipated.  Inconsistent results between subject tracks have given me some doubt on just what I have been h...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The need for a balanced buffer stage by noviygera on 2018-11-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The need for a balanced buffer stage in Analog Playback  10 Replies 
In my situation there is a missing link between my single ended phono stage and my balanced active crossover. Between them is 35ft. of interconnect. The missing link is indicated with "?" in the sketch.What I need is one single-ended input, some atte...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Active, passive...try it... by Romy the Cat on 2007-03-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
Well, if you do not have anything user 35Hz and have low sensitivety then the passive might do. Still in future, when you feel comfortable with your passive unit you might for the sake of self-education try an following experiment: Guy Hummel use to ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #63: Bye-Bye Placette…. by Romy the Cat on 2009-10-19 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Pacific Microsonics Model 2 in Didital Things  85 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Yes, I have thought about it. My Placette has no tape loop but I think it needs to be added. It is shame that I did not think about it before – it would save me some cable not to mention an ability to run A/D from anyt...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: Re: Thorsten's preamp idea by Thorsten on 2005-11-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Passive transformer based preamp in Audio Discussions  41 Replies 
Roman,[quote user="Romy the Cat"]May I ask you, this realization of yours… dose it has any “sound”. [/quote]The one we have build which is a little different (6S45 not C3g, also tried WE 417A, 437A, TX-101 Copper not silver, AN UK Line Output Transfo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #2: Is MET not "live" anymore? by Romy the Cat on 2008-02-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Next week in Metropolitan Opera.... in Off Air Audio  17 Replies 
The worsening quietly of Metropolitan broadcasts is not a secret to anyone but did anyone notice that those hoodlums this session become even more obnoxious. Now the MET FM broadcasts are not live anymore but they are A/Ded, then come to some kind of...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #182: Air caps?Buffer? by N-set on 2011-11-29 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Did you try just for test to increase the caps value that short the plate to ground? Will it amount and the character of the noise change? [/quote]Just like one would expect: 0.1uF shorting cap gives approx 4x more ham than...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Name two good active pre-amps by Paul S on 2007-03-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another light for the LS tunnel: transformer-attenuators? in Audio Discussions  26 Replies 
Please do not get the idea that I ever "ruled out" active pre-amps or came to the TAP through some sort of object worship.  I really couldn't care less about how the job gets done.  Active is fine, as long as the results are there...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Preamplifiers: keys to mystery. (Lamm L1, L2) by Romy the Cat on 2004-11-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Preamplifiers: keys to mystery. (Lamm L1, L2) in Audio Discussions  2 Replies 
Preamplifiers: keys to mystery – or…. how a preamp might be not only a load-driving gadget. Years after years the preamplifiers are being a “terra incognito” of audio people. I admit that preamps are a subject of my persistent curiosity. I was alway...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #51: Three preamps compared by anthony on 2020-08-16 
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Now that all three are on the same absolute polarity and have been listened to quite a bit I thought it time to write down my impressions.  From least preferable to most: (3) Neurochrome Universal Buffer set to inve...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Met sound by jp on 2009-04-12 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Next week in Metropolitan Opera.... in Off Air Audio  17 Replies 
I dont know what you mean by helicopting, but I detected problems with the transmissions in later acts as if whatever machine they were feeding the signal to had problems.  At certain points it sounded like they were fast forwarding tape-perhaps that...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #54: Putting the proper spin on it by jessie.dazzle on 2008-12-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: High Quality Music Server / CD player in Didital Things  169 Replies 
Romy wrote : "...Jessie, if you read your CD with computer then can you try something like this? http://discrotate.sourceforge.net/index.html..."Yes I can try it, but I don't know if it will work on the drives where I store music files, as it is an ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #21: My vision of transparency... by Romy the Cat on 2005-04-01 
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[quote user="Thorsten"]Even a pair of RCA Jacks and a wire inbetween is not transparent.[/quote] T, thanks for the pitching of the 6AS7 SRPP. I would disagree with the quoted statement. I think you guys are not correctly understanding my definition o...
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