GeeZa Wrote: > > I really don't like taking sides in this age-old passive vs. active > debate, but the engineering side is pretty clear.
The simplest passive pre is an attenuator, and the simplest of those is simply two resistors, one in the signal path and the other shunted to ground. The ratio of the two resitances determines the degree of attenuation. If the components are decent and the circuit isn't designed by a chimpanzee there will be hardly any reactance, and therefore a close to completely flat frequency response. Whether that is going to sound good to you depends on you, the source, and the power amp, all of which respond non-linearly in various ways... but I think there can be little argument that - in isolation - nothing is going to beat a passive attenuator for fidelity. -- opaqueice ------------------------------------------------------------------------ opaqueice's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4234 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25614 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
