Brian
Eating fat, staying slim
I think this is a bit off the wall but I'll post it anyway...
I've been following the preamplifier threads with some interest, I don't fit in the camp of believing an active preamp will always improve any system as some people at least appear to believe but neither do I reject them out of hand having owned plenty in the past.
In my valve integrated amp I've changed volume control from
Alps Blue > TKD > DACT Stepped Attenuator > Passive TVC
and at each stage there has been an improvement.
If I owned an active preamp right now and it was supplied with something like an Alps Blue pot I would immediately swap it out for the DACT for an overall system improvement. Does it follow that a further improvement could be had by completely removing the volume pot from an active preamp, connecting the preamp output to a passive TVC?
Possibly a daft idea but I'd like to open it up for discussion.
I've been following the preamplifier threads with some interest, I don't fit in the camp of believing an active preamp will always improve any system as some people at least appear to believe but neither do I reject them out of hand having owned plenty in the past.
In my valve integrated amp I've changed volume control from
Alps Blue > TKD > DACT Stepped Attenuator > Passive TVC
and at each stage there has been an improvement.
If I owned an active preamp right now and it was supplied with something like an Alps Blue pot I would immediately swap it out for the DACT for an overall system improvement. Does it follow that a further improvement could be had by completely removing the volume pot from an active preamp, connecting the preamp output to a passive TVC?
Possibly a daft idea but I'd like to open it up for discussion.