In article , Dave Plowman (News)
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In article .com,
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Also a good preamp is essentual for good imaging.Most preamps fail in
this regard,although even some of the old NADs -like a 1240 are
capable of this.If voices sound very wide or wander around then that
is a sign of a preamp defficiency.

That sounds like phase problems or crosstalk. Are you really saying
decent commercial designs do this?

Despite having tried various preamps over the years, I've never encountered
one that performs as 'JT' describes. Unless he means that the channel
tracking on the volume pot is poor. But my impression is that this isn't
what he means.

I've certainly encountered such effects due to things like the speakers or
the room acoustics, though. One of the reasons I've ended up preferring
Electrostatics... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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