I have about 1.5m of cabling and it works fine but shorter is definitely better in my experience. Certainly more than 3m starts to have a detrimental effect in my system
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I have about 1.5m of cabling and it works fine but shorter is definitely better in my experience. Certainly more than 3m starts to have a detrimental effect in my system
People are used to amps where full output is only half way round the dial and at a quarter the way round it is too loud for any normal room and speakers. Deliberate of course so rubes are fooled into thinking the amp must be really powerful and have loads in reserve.
Yes, I have a set of them myself left over from when I used active pre-amps :) CD player always too much output, or so I thought in my naivety. Get rid of the pointless extra gain stage, problem solved and you can hear what the player is actually doing without all the glare you thought was just the crapness of 'digital'.
Get yourself a Schiit Freya and you can have passive, JFet buffer or Tube Gain all in the same box with full remote control.
https://schiit.eu.com/preamps/Schiit-Freya
You can then see which suits your system the best. In my system active tube is best because I use insensitive power amps. My Monarchy Audio SM70Pro needs 1 volt input for full output and my SDS470C class D needs 2 volts. The JFET buffer sounds very good with the Monarchy's and some might prefer this to the active stage.
Indeed all sorts of strange ideas abound! A customer just a few days ago wanted the output of a pre increasing as he thought the main amp was "being worked harder" by having the volume control at a higher setting!
Generally 4M or so of coax is fine with a 50K pot or attenuator and even 10M would be fine with a 10K pot
I just bought one of these for a giggle. Passive pre-amp with tone controls. I think I can just about stretch to the expense.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2915687233...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
Apparently there is a significant insertion loss and it may well sound awful. Just a bit of fun! :D
There's also the Saga at much less. It deos without balanced and tube gain but still has remote control. Never used one myself but it had a very positive review in this month's HIFI World. https://schiit.eu.com/preamps/Schiit-Freya
Oh schiit!! Try this link:) https://schiit.eu.com/preamps/Saga