What’s “worse” (other than “not transparent”). Can you be more specific? Also I did read one review that they needed a lot of burn-in - no idea if that’s BS or not.
I’m not surprised. There’s a reason why the unity-gain buffer is a thing. Also, not a fan of tiny surface mount resistors in audio. They’re fine for steady-state but I suspect their small mass causes them to have nonlinear response to transients.
@rlow , it cleans up the sound, and makes it "pristine" in a way with some clarity, but then you lose all the small microdetails and dynamics, which suck the emotion out of the music. I guess people mistake transparency for that sterility/flatness/neutral clarity. I think for Pop its less offensive, but for classical piano....definitely hearing a lot of missing information.
I wondered if the Goldpt sound was kind of “clean, lean and mean” that sort of faked neutrality and transparency, but you’re the first person I’ve seen actually say this. Which IL passive attenuators are you using?
Curious how GoldPoint would get a 'sound'...resistor selection? It is just resistors in the path, plus whatever rollof the cable capacitance might introduce, no? What am I missing?
I have no answer other than it sounds different. It definitely smooths and cleans up the dirt of the Yggdrasil. Atomicbob did measurements so I can't say anything from that point but @pure5152 feels the same sentiment
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