Just a note/ reminder. Dave the Bitch is currently working our mini pre amp that will include MM and MC cartridge AND have real time de click and de pop option built in. RIAA is actually going to happen in DSP software and as such will be highly accurate.
Great, a long overdue development. I've despaired for years that RIAA continued to be done in the analogue domain, even in equipment that then digitised the output and did everything else digitally. Talk about nuts, or pandering to the "analogue is best" brigade.
Switchable discrete input are what people have been clamouring for. I think that Chucky said that it's a possible feature for Involves planned super preamp.
If you have a turntable that's fitted with a magnetic cartridge, and also has a built-in preamp, you can connect it directly to the SM, as long as the preamp is turned on.
Interesting question. I'd never given the disposition of sockets any thought. So I did a quick check of the five preamps and integrated amps I can readily get to the back of (they are variously made by Octave, Cambridge, Copland, Luxman and Quad) and found that they all had their socket pairs arranged vertically as per Chucky's design. So on a random sample, not entirely uncommon!
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So this is a stereo preamp, which could then be used to feed into a SM v. whatever. What this still doesn't solve is how one could switch between the SM and another, discrete, multichannel source, such as a DVD-A/SACD player. I got around this by using a switchbox that was actually designed to select between two component input/stereo audio sources, and using the tape output jacks on my receiver to feed the SM. It works quite well, and the sound is glorious.
Just wondering, why does it matter? As long as it works, I don't see it as a big deal whether they're side-by-side or one above the other.
It doesn't matter.
I’m interested in it for the real time De-Click aspect, and shouldn’t this have its own thread?
