Phil Leigh;262733 Wrote: > Oh for goodness sake - nobody needs to pay $600 for some metal film > resistors!
Probably true. The single ended versions are actually quite popular in some audiophile circles over the years -- they are the cheaper ones (only about $400 :). However, they just don't use any metal-film resistors.... see the parts list at the bottom... you can build them yourself and save over half off that number at Percy by buying the raw parts. The attenuator in my pre-amp is a shunt-to ground single resistor design -- I think it contibutes to the clarity across different volume levels. For the Transporter, I would agree that with 16 bit recordings, the 8 bits of digital attenuation you get after conversion to 24 would afford you the need for only a few steps in a attenuator. Something like this, with many steps would be overkill. But if you have or plan to have true 24 bit recordings, you may not want to digitally attenuate and start truncating real data bits to preserve fidelity at all listening levels. -- jt25741 SB3->AR Masters Coax -> PS Audio DLIII -> Cardas Golden Reference XLR -> Sim Audio P-5 -> Cardas Golden Reference XLR -> Sim Audio W-5 -> Cardas Golden Reference Hi-Mid,PS Audio Xstream Plus Low-> Magnepan 3.6R ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jt25741's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8645 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=42698 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
