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In Reply to: Re: Some interesting replies. posted by john curl on April 21, 2007 at 14:09:11:
"Have we made much progress since then?"John:
I used to think things were done the way they were done because someone somewhere decided that was the best way to do it, and everyone else concurred! Then I had to grow up and realise that things like cost restrictions (or profit margin), space, simplicity, and most often sheer familiarity were why things are done the way they are done.
A good example is the widespread use of the unbalanced connection.
In consumer hi-end audio, it really is sometimes mind boggling how we generally obsess about "optimizing" something that was a compromise in the first place. Some guys refuse to play the game and build their systems around hybird amps and pre-amps (pro/hi-end) which are all balanced.
I have more balanced-to-unbalanced and unbalanced-to-balanced adapter cables than I usually care to admit.
Once I get more confident about my DSP based playback system (with built in EQ/Crossover and DRC impulse convolver) and get it sounding as musical and open as possible, I think I want to try an all-balanced preamp and amp section. I may even go to the extreme of running balanced out of Lynx 2B directly into amps with stepped attenuators. I am really not a fan of digital attenuation, even if small attenuation levels do not result in the dramatic dynamic range penalty as some folks make it out to be.
Anyways... babbling again! :^]
Cheers,
Presto
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