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Post by danielquinn on Oct 30, 2014 8:00:54 GMT
Leaving aside the legality issue and safe disposal. They ate known to suffer from reliability issues via a vis maintaining thermal coefficient. Some manufactures claim to have overcome this issue. However a 2 hour empirical test is clearly insufficient to proclaim the product a success.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 30, 2014 8:47:50 GMT
I'm very happy with my Chord 2600 integrated on my 2nd system.
Well under £2k 2nd hand when they come up
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Post by pre65 on Oct 30, 2014 10:12:09 GMT
To be honest, good as the LDR pre was, I still think my Audionote copy is preferable. To my ears in my system. 
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Post by John on Oct 30, 2014 10:46:05 GMT
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Post by Sovereign on Oct 30, 2014 16:15:29 GMT
As I said its a wee bit premature for final conclusions, I need more time with more material and different volume levels. i.e. I need to live with it for a while. Initial impressions are extremely impressive though.
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Post by yomanze on Oct 30, 2014 19:19:52 GMT
I can't say I've personally had any issues with using a passive other than in a few cases a lack of gain. Sound quality is great and sounds more open than an active in most cases. YMMV. Hi Jez I wonder if there's more to it than simple source and amp impedance matching coupled with passive setup. As I mentioned things should be all good, but for some reason the passives that I have tried lack 'flesh on the bones' compared to the actives even with my 33db gain / 47k input impedance amp. |
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Post by chukka on Nov 1, 2014 11:18:26 GMT
I have had the Stereo Coffe kit for a while and can confirm that it is as good or better than any other volume control / passive / active I have ever used. If in doubt, it only costs around US$ 100, so hardly a huge risk to try it out. Build time is a couple of hours depending mainly on the enclosure you are going to use and if you have to drill some holes in it. Mounted on a board it takes about 30 minutes to connect everything up. Just my 2 cts.
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