ClibeB's post in another thread has me confused and I was hoping that I may get some input that would clear up my confusion. cliveb;164218 Wrote: > The best preamp possible is no preamp at all. You can have a hifi set up wihtout a pre-amp? I currently use a Transporter directly into a NAIM power amp. However I am under the impression that I am using the Transporter's built-in pre-amp. Is this not true? If it is true why should the pre-amp be better than than the NAIM pre-amp I used to use? NAIM dealers tend to say that using another pre-amp (rather than a NAIM) can introduce "instability" (yup, I know... not too technical, but then NAIM dealers tend towards the wooly rather than the technical). Patrick Dixon has said on these forums that the pre-amp should block very high freuencies (out-of-hearing range one presumes) to work properly with a NAIM amp, otherwise "instability" is the result. I assume that if this is the case with NAIM it might well be the case with other power amp/pre-amp combos. My experience is that not using a pre-amp with a Transporter "might" produce a harsher sound (not tested as testing is very hard to do in this case). I may well be entirely wrong about this though so please take this observation with a dose of salt. MC
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