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Yes it is a fully balanced design and on the used market the 10B would sell well even if you open the box. I think the benefits the 10B would offer would far outweigh the negatives Charles is concern about but he knows his products best. james |
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Charles Hansen died earlier this year, but as he had predicted the Ayre preamp and amp gave me much of the sound I enjoyed with 20-watt Cary CD 572 SE monoblocks without the PITA tubes. The setup with the LS50s is all Ayre, a C-5xeMP disc player, QX-5 Twenty digital hub that gets files from Roon via ethernet, the KX-5 Twenty preamp, and VX-5 Twenty amp. But I think I am going to try high-passing to the LS50s with the 10B. Do you have any recommendations about settings?
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Then start with 18db per octave rolloff in both low and high pass. james |
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I'll try those settings. When I unpacked the 10B, I was surprised by how big and heavy it is. It appears to be a serious piece of equipment.
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Questions for James regarding the SP3:
Background: I am feeding a stereo analog signal to the SP3 via balanced inputs. I am using the 2ch-bypass bypass switch in the SP3 and I have the crossover set to 80hz. Questions: Does the SP3 still sends the full (20-20k) content to the L-R mains? Or does SP3 only feed the mains with content above 80hz (that is, sends all contents below 80hz to the subs only)? Thanks! |
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The analog 2 channel bypass would send a full range signal to the mains. james |
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Thank you James! I was hoping that that was the case. [emoji1317] |
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I've reintroduced bypassing front LR from the SP3 to a Parasound JC 2 BP preamp, and sending balanced analog from my Ayre DX-5 DSD disc/USB player directly to the JC 2 BP. That setup seems to sound a bit better than the SP3. Roon through the Ayre sounds great. (I have an Ayre K-5xeMP preamp that I plan to sell since I bought a KX-5 Twenty, but I think first I'll try it as an alternative to the JC 2 BP -- it also has by-pass capability.)
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So... you are converting an analog signal back to digital and then to analog again (analog->digital->analog) and it sounds better? |
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