Wombat;574730 Wrote: > I second that. The SB3 alone has an output that should have not the > slightest problem to drive a pre-amp input. The Op-Amp in the exit has > enough current juice even for low impedance power-amps. > If a pre-amp betters the sound the power-amp has some broken or badly > engineered inputs or the pre-amp just adds his own "sweet" sound.
I also agree - the SB3 works great with passive attenuation directly into the amplifier. I'm not really sure what accounts for it, but different passive attenuators can produce rather different sonic results - even though they are just a voltage dividers / resistor networks. I tried several passive attenuators, and the 'Scott Endler's Shotgun Attenuators' (http://mysite.verizon.net/vze4c5pt/id2.html) easily sounded the best. For some reason, I found the Rothwells sounded the poorest out of all the passives - I tried several of them and they all sounded really bad in comparison to the others. The Endlers though, are consistently fantastic and more flexible in application as well - they receive my own strong recommendation. -- NewBuyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81664 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
