|
|
Post by largespeakers on Jun 2, 2007 16:20:44 GMT
Do all those out there with a x canv2 find the sound better with an additional preamp?
|
|
|
|
Post by aurum on Jun 10, 2007 3:08:50 GMT
Since no one else has had a stab at this. I personally don't think so. The CD player I use eliminates the need for a preamp, which is one of the reasons I chose it.
Is the preamp solid sate or tube? At the very least a preamp is the most noise inducing component in the audio food chain. I drive my V Cans direct from my CD player. This ensures the shortest possible audio path, & minimises the degradation of the sound.
I would consider a preamp may be useful in a system as a tone & soundstage control , & other obvious reasons. You may find tube rolling would do the same thing without the need for an additional preamp, until you find the sound flavour you like.
I use a tube preamp with my SET amp & horns, which in the future will be hooked up to my TV/DVD player. I'll do some tube rolling with the preamp to find the best sound synergy.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 3:47:08 GMT
Aurum
Are your VAF speakers the DCX ? I had a listen to a pair of DCX recently, and they sound really good with the right amplifier. I must say the bottom end is something else again - Awesome !
SandyK
|
|
|
|
Post by largespeakers on Jun 10, 2007 22:14:28 GMT
Just wondered as I find it better with a pre amp. More substance, soundstage, layering to the music. This is especially true with better cds that are less compressed. It may be the tubes in the xcan I will need to roll some to find out. My pre amp is ss but a one off highly modded with external psu.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 22:48:49 GMT
largespeakers
IMHO, you just answered your own question. If you are going to use a ss amplifier for the benefits you described, particularly layering of the music (yes, I get that too) you should be partnering it with a ss Headphone amplifier of similar quality.Why don't you wait and see what Graham Slee has up his sleeve ? I know most people in this forum love their "glowing bottles" for their warm euphonic sound, but I honestly don't believe that anything but the highest quality valve amplifier can come near the soundstage of a high quality SS design , mainly due to their lower S/N and much lower achievable distortion levels. This low level ambience that you are referring to, is often masked to some extent by the poorer S/N and higher even order distortion products of MOST valve designs. Not necessarily those owned by many savvy forum members.
THERE, I HAVE GONE AND SAID IT, SO EXCOMMUNICATE ME FROM THIS FORUM FOR HERESY !
Alex
|
|
|
|
Post by aurum on Jun 10, 2007 23:29:37 GMT
I have also heard the DCX speakers & liked them a lot. Mine are the I-66 Signature series. If you like the DCX, then the I-66's will blow you away.
I had them done in Metallic Piano Black.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2007 23:47:20 GMT
I would love to get a pair of the Signatures, but the cat would soon make them look like my old ones. You didn't bite about my recent reply! I am expecting a lot of flack when Europe comes out of the darkness.
|
|
|
|
Post by aurum on Jun 11, 2007 3:19:20 GMT
What is there to bite about? any good tubeaholic know that valves piss all over SS.  I'd put that cat into a box shaped like a speaker if it tried to use my Signatures as a scratching post |
|
