Κώστας Φ.
Truth hurts. Here's a teddy bear.
- Μηνύματα
- 8.978
- Reaction score
- 895


Εκτός από τους τελικούς, εκεί στη Wyred4Sound φαίνεται να τα καταφέρνουν εξίσου καλά και με τους προενισχυτές..
Full Review: ClickThen you're greeted by resistor ladders composed of Dale rn55d cooper lead units, alleys of capacitors, banks of relays, a discrete dual FET buffer stage for impedance stabilization and a butch power supply with a 25A Schottky bridge rectifier and 164,560+ uF of capacitance to outmuscle more than one power amp. For ultra quiet operation -- Wyred specs <6uV in passive mode, <18uV in active -- there are two filter stages with Nichicon bipolar Muse capacitors. The volume control offers max attenuation of 128dB, isolation of >106dB, channel matching to +/- 0.05dB and half-dB steps.
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There are two sets of XLR i/o ports, 3 RCA ins and 2 RCA outs. This anticipates most all reasonable scenarios. The VFD display allows input naming, HT Bypass input selection and several display dimming options. There are DC trigger ports (1 in, 2 out) and the remote offers balance in up to 15 steps per side, absolute polarity inversion (the fully dual-differential circuit is non-inverting), mute, volume, dim and input switching. Accessing the software menu presses both up/down buttons while powering up from standby by pushing on the optical encoder. A combination of up, down, mute and encoder presses then intuitively navigates and selects. For final specs, output impedance is 78 ohms at or above 64 on the volume display, 113 ohms at or below 63. Input impedance is 60.4K and max output voltage 9V RMS.
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No matter how you turn this around in your hands and head, that's a seriously high-value proposition with extreme performance. Call it a Blue Moon Award winner with a big helping of Realsization sensibilities thrown in. Or in short, one helluva sweet deal!
Κι ένα ενδιαφέρον σχόλιο συναδέλφου του Srajan (σε άρθρο για τα αγαπημένα του μηχανάκια το 2009):
Frederic's 2009 Personal Favorites: ClickThe first component I have lived with for now approaching six months yet I did not review it. That pleasure went to Srajan who granted it one of our Blue Moon Awards. I mean the Wyred4Sound STP-SE preamplifier.
To put things simply, I had been living with the Esoteric C03 preamplifier (another Blue Moon recipient) for over half a year and was ready to write the rather large check needed to keep the C03 permanently when Srajan’s review of the STP published to shatter my expectations. The W4S STP-SE, he wrote, was musically barely differentiable from the C03 in its +12dB setting, was fully balanced like the C03 and went for less than $2,000 compared to the C03’s $10,000. Mere days after that review published, I bought the STP-SE and ran both preamplifiers face to face for weeks, finally coming to the same conclusions as Srajan.

