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Steve Markstrom

Steve Markstrom

Here are a few pictures of my Balanced Line Stage/Pearl combination preamp. The Pearl is built with the Pass DIY… More...
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Foy Wilkey

Foy Wilkey

Presented is the metamorphosis of a Philips DAC960 into a BLS. The original guts of this thing was a pre… More...

Amp Camp Project — Pass DIY / 2016

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Speaker Cables — Nelson Pass / 1980

AUDIOPHILES RECENTLY BEGAN re-examining the performance of every link in the audio playback chain, and before long their attention turned to the lowly loudspeaker cable. In response to demand, a number of companies are producing or distributing new and exotic cables claimed to improve audio power transmission from amplifier to speaker. Pointing to lower resistance and inductance, proponents of the newer cables insist they sound significantly better ("better than an expander!"); however, the subject is controversial, and some hi-fi notables claim performance increase is negligible and the higher capacitance of some new cables can cause amplifier instability and damage.1-4 Neither… More...

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