Pass Labs Purchase

From what I understand it is true that Pass himself does not design the preamps as he is so concentrated on power amp designs so there is another designer that does design their preamps but you know that they are designed to complement their amps so I would say that it will be a very good match.

Raven....whatever happen to your Turntable idea? Did you decide not to go into vinyl?

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Raven....whatever happen to your Turntable idea? Did you decide not to go into vinyl?

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Frenchmon, it is on the back burner. To do it the way that I want to, it will cost about $3500 for TT, cartridge and phono preamp. Right now I have lots of high quality CD's, XRCD's and Hybrid SACD's. All my LP's are from my college days and not in the best of shape I am sure. So I would have to build a new LP collection. I think that my next upgrade will be a new DAC with XLR or one of the Reference Marantz SACD players if I can get a good deal on a used one. Besides, I am going to all this trouble to get my digital collection to sound its best and I am slowly getting there.

Marantz US | SA-11S3

Marantz US | SA-15S2B Limited



Eventually, I may just go for a reasonable budget TT system. Maybe in the $1500 range. I have a good friend that wants to sell me this TT for about $600.


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It's spring suspension system is a design disaster for pro-ject and it was phased out rather quickly. It is a great buy as it sold for more than double that. It has very good carbon tone arm and it sounds good. It is just touchy when you walk by it.

Also a new pair of Maggies may be in the future. The 3.7's look pretty good. I should have bought the 3.6's when my wife told me to get them over the 1.6's. I will just have to see how things sound with the preamp.

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Also a new pair of Maggies may be in the future. The 3.7's look pretty good. I should have bought the 3.6's when my wife told me to get them over the 1.6's. I will just have to see how things sound with the preamp.

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Wow Raven it sounds like you have a very cool and understanding wife when it comes to audio. To tell you to get the better and more importantly more expensive speakers is cool. It sounds like my wife when she told me to go ahead and jump on the Pass amp and quit playing around thinking of a mild upgrade just to want to upgrade again within a year. My wife said she would rather me spend more and get what I want rather than spend less several times to get to the level I want to get. I love when a spouse understands your passions and agrees with you following them to the fullest(within reason of course)

Harley, I do have an understanding wife. She told me to go ahead and buy the matching Pass X1 preamp now instead of waiting. She enjoys listening to music with me. I am a lucky man as my 22 year old son will sit and listen to music with me as well.

Man...I wish I was so lucky to have family members listen to music with me.

That TT may just need a good isolation base and you're set!

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Man...I wish I was so lucky to have family members listen to music with me.

That TT may just need a good isolation base and you're set!

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My son will sit down and listen for 2 hours at a time with me. He is a budding audiophile. I gave him the PSB B6's, Maverick Tube Magic Pre/DAC and my CDA 254 digital amp which he swapped out with my A21 amp which I guess I am going to keep for now since my wife suggested I give it to my son. He knows that the Pass gear will all be his some day.

Man I wished when I was 22 my dad would have let me use his high end gear that was not used in his system in mine. But I had to pretty much start from scratch when I was young to build a system. I have always likes audio even from childhood but i could not break into the higher end stuff until I got older and could afford it.

Jack,

Nelson Pass is a member of another forum I belong to and will answer questions if you have any from what I see.

Which site is Pass on that could be a valuable source for us Pass owners?

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Audioshark.org is the forum

It is a no nonsense place with no arguments, trolling or otherwise. Just fully respectable people and posting. Lots of other Owners and dealers there also.

First I've heard of that one, I'll have to check it out.

Some folks that were dismissed or left AudioAficionado started that up a few months ago. Pretty sure Jack and yourself would fit in over there. I know Jack is a member of Aficionado but has not joined AS as of yet.

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He is or was on this forum too. I have been to it several times in the past.-

Adcom 555II - Nelson Pass ? - diyAudio

Thanks, I'll join this afternoon. Mark at Reno HiFi has been very helpful with my questions so far.

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Some folks that were dismissed or left AudioAficionado started that up a few months ago. Pretty sure Jack and yourself would fit in over there. I know Jack is a member of Aficionado but has not joined AS as of yet.

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Your right...Amando who was also at Audioficiondo and also Audiokarma is now over at Audioshark. He is the one that took the recent pictures of an audio gathering up in New York. I also joined both audioshark and AudioAficionado but never posted at audioshark.