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Re: Some more info from what Thomas said, some questions.

Posted by Gordon Rankin (M) on December 29, 2006 at 08:19:28

In Reply to: Re: Some more info from what Thomas said, some questions. posted by Presto on December 28, 2006 at 17:01:37:

Presto,

Sorry I got the impression you where doing like a 3 channel not 3 way system.

I am not at all a fan of this as you have read my thesis and rambling on other forums. The gist of my thesis is that between 100-10k all the amplifiers need to be the same or the dissimilarites in sound between the amplifiers clouds the over cohesion of the sound.

Anyway... other thoughts...

The Crystal CS8420 is evil... ask anyone. Play Linda Ronstandt's first CD (original one not the remix) and the CS8420 freaks out.

Passive preamps suck the life out of everything. Especially TVC's they don't have the inductance required for low end and phase shift like crazy.

Your best bet would be the Oxford part. Sorry... I developed a nice dac for someone else with 8 channels they stole the unit and never paid me. I don't have the time to do another design like that but maybe someone else does. The Oxford needs a secondary PLL/VCXO because the clock out has something like 10ns of jitter.

Anyways... my thought would be dump the whole triamping and go with a really good 2 channel. It will cost 1/3 the amount, have 300% less headaches and will sound better.

Thanks
Gordon
J. Gordon Rankin

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