Gosh ... I think I've got an itch again

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ditton

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I'm prompted to think aloud about an itch, or maybe an idea of an itch.

I'll leave my sig. on for this first post.

I dont have a pre and was once encouaged to add a passive, removing the digital attenuation from the Dax Decade. I'm considering doing that now.

I deliberately avoided going back to vinyl but still have some and an old Systemdek so a pre would be good - unless I'm so set on the digital that I feed that through the ADX but I guess I would need some gain to do that.

I'm considering upgrading the DVD player, but maybe that's another forum.

'xcuse the ramblings.


And I do recognise that the Epos speakers are prob the weakest part of the system. I like them, but then I used to say that about my Celestion Dittons (whence the monica).
 
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Are you sure the attenuation in the Decade is digital? Audio Synthesis tend to be very purest when it comes to such things and I always assumed the volume stage would be a fancy resistor ladder or something.

I've got one of their early passive preamps myself, a PAS 02 stepped attenuator:

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It's pretty much 'no preamp' from what I can tell, I like it a lot.

Tony.
 
i grew up first with celestion ditton 15's i loved them as a very early teenager, you can converse your vynil to any digital format, it is easy,
 
Well, if you were to take my advice you would probably invest heavily in a vinyl front end and buy an active pre-amp.........
 
Yes, sorry, not overly helpful I know.
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I like that pic of Tony's Pas-02, particularly the knobs!
 
TonyL said:
Are you sure the attenuation in the Decade is digital? Audio Synthesis tend to be very purest when it comes to such things and I always assumed the volume stage would be a fancy resistor ladder or something.
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Tony.
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I'm fairly sure that volume control for the AS Dax Decade is fully in the digital domain. I recall discussion on that a while back.
 
YNMOAN said:
I like that pic of Tony's Pas-02, particularly the knobs!
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It's well weird! The vol knob is dual-concentric, the back bit giving 3db steps, the end 0.5db. I guess that means it's going through two resistors per channel rather than the usual one for a passive, but it certainly makes for lots of fine adjustment even with a power amp with a lot of gain like my 303 (0.5v for full output). It effectively has 138 steps!

Tony.
 

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