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[quote user="Romy"] I see a problem. Sine you have 8 meters interconnects I presume that it a relatively large room with speakers positioned relatively far. This way your common remote control will drive two Placette passive units located a few meter...
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The size, I can understand.But can't you simply take the tape out from your Placette and plug it into the Pacific's analog inputs? I'm assuming that the Placette has, in addition to its variable output, a fixed output...Surely this would help wit...
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Just a brief note on my recent addition: Placette Active preamp. Due to a recent purchase of Tannoy Golds, I had the opportunity to pull an old McIntosh SS amp out of the closet recently. This amp has gain controls, so I tried running it ...
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Romy, I will attempt to fill you in on some backstory.
My Placette was purchased from a guy in France. My dac is made in the Netherlands. To an Australian that is just like next door. I have a good and strong rel...
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Anthony, I know what you
feel but I am no sure that I might be too useful for you quest. Let me to explain
first the points you made.
I do not know why Placette
does not work in your situation. You do not have enough volume? If it is the
case ...
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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 kne...
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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...
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[quote user="Paul S"]Anthony, congrats on your amazing progress! I know how hard it is to carve out time for this stuff! I see you are looking for gain from your pre-amp, which makes me wonder if you have been using the passive Placette, as opposed t...
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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...
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Anthony, I am afraid I do not agree with your assessment of the situation. Let look at what is going on together. The 10Y preamp is not another league but juts a proper architectural solution for your system configuration. You have a power amp with v...
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In the past there was such a concept of full-function preamplifiers that included MM and MC inputs. With time such devises die out and nowadays it is VERY difficult to find a full-function preamplifier generally and a good sounding full-function ...
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I never thought that it is so painful: to have a playback and no front-end thatcan drive my amps. Thankfully the Placette is coming back now with the whole 12 channels and the tape loop. I have some ideas how to chance the connections across the who...
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Romy,Does your Placette have a custom input impedance of 42K ohms rather than the stock 18K ohms input impedance?...
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[quote user="George"] The remote is not a problem. Using a Xantech distributer, repeaters, and electric eye you can configure the two passive remotes in a foolproof, or nearly foolpoof, manner for about $75-100 total. Since I already had the basic Xa...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Another a very valid thing to try is to see of the same difference with the same recordings happens with different DACs, preamps the you will take care of the absolute phase. [/quote]To date, my listening has been with my f...
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Hi Romy,Just thinking out loud here, but I have been listening to my mono DSET/Macondo for quite a while now and recently changed back to my old acoustic system so that I could poke around in the DSET innards for a little while. The old system (in s...
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But I thought the core of the Placette is passive, with a buffered output, no gain?How could this work at all?Best regards,Paul S...
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My playback is disarray and distraction for weeks. My preamp is being rebuilt by Guy Hammel and without it my playback feels like a playground of WWIII. Nothing could be connected; nothing can drive anything – sucks in other words. But is it coming,...
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Anthony, I am not so thrill
that you are unlashing your into this direction. Not that it is my business and
you can do whatever you want. Still, I feel that methodologically it is not right
way to build a playback. What I mean is that to evaluate ...
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Paul S wrote :"Didn't you just buy that Englishman's Placette Active right out from under me? Use that and hear what happens."Nope it was not me... My only recent acquisitions have been three very very cool industrial-strength tu...
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Good news so far Romy. I have been wondering where things were at regarding introducing gain into the Placette. ...
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I have not seen it mentioned but I might of missed it. The PurePower absolutely demands shielded interconnects especially between preamp and amp in my experience. No matter how careful I route the cables, I was getting noise or buzzing from the speak...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Anthony, I do not know what you new buffer is. A few notes. The difference between sub 10R and 300R of output impedance is significant for the load you have (Milq) between your new buffer and your 10Y preamp. The type of th...
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AlloWell this could be very interesting.... the Melq driver (at lower voltage) direct coupled to a 6C33 cathode follower run at low voltage, high current. Vincent looks like he's running about 80V 500mA, though in this case you'd need to use a r...
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Attentuators plugged directly into the RCA jacks sounds like good solution for balance control, though I will check Placette first for cost of adding second remote controlled sensor, thanks romy....
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i am well aware of the problems the 47 labs approach brings along with the good things it does.i have at times in my setups good results,in other setups disaster.47 and audionote use no digital/oversampling filter.this obviously can have negative con...
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Hi Romy,I wish I had seen your post on Placette before buying mine. I didn't realize that there is no balance control on the unit. I know in theory this should not be a problem, but I miss this feature for several reasons. Can't hav...
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Ok, thanks for explaining. I
few things I would like to note.
If your preamp, being
incorporated between you front-end and you power amps degrades sound in any way
or does not make sound better then it is not a good preamp. Period, there is n...
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Come on, Anthony, you need to “clean your room” as Peterson
say before you move forward. Variac is notoriously bad for sound, at least 3
types that I tried were horrible. I do not see why Placette cannot run from
220V, confirm it with Guy. Both li...
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[quote user="RonyWeissman"] I didn't realize that there is no balance control on the unit. I know in theory this should not be a problem, but I miss this feature for several reasons. Can't have everything when you buy on the used market t...
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