Basic P50 v Tisbury passive

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

No, I think the first stepping stone is the Creek one which is pretty ordinary sounding IMO.

[jammy395]

Well it would be a good starting point bake off.........

Tissy v Creek.

I know who would win......

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

Well we have NEBO which could do a Bake-Off between about 3 or 4 of them from what I see of the people going.

[kazam]

Can't offer much in terms of a comparative review, but I have tried the Tisbury when I used a P50. I sent it back after a week or so, as to me it was nowhere near as transparent sounding as the NVA when used with A80s. It may be worth trying with other kit, but I'd suggest you save the money you'll spend sending it back if you already use NVA.

[_D_S_J_R_]

The NVA was always better value if you needed more inputs and outputs. Having found the Crown D-60 (workroom one drives headphones) and the HH both sound 'better' with a passive, I will probably look towards getting a P50 for myself as it looks so much better than my jobbie, which looks worse than a dogs dinner and is only three input with one output.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

IMO DACT type attenuators using SMD resistors are pretty naf. I have two here somewhere if I can find them I ordered from Hong Kong, and my standard pot was better than them. If anyone wants them and I can find them they can have them.

[brit-pop]

Well we have NEBO which could do a Bake-Off between about 3 or 4 of them from what I see of the people going.

I will take my Icon Audio and really keen to hear Macca's P90SA...

I will say right now if I prefer it I'll flog the icon and buy one.

[Dr Bunsen Honeydew]

But no remote.

I get a bit embarrassed about not doing a remote. But the motorised pots are not as good as my pots, and motorised stepped attenuators ditto, and the SA are really hard to find. Electronic and digital volume control circuits are crap, to not put too finer point on it. So in order to remote (at the moment within my experience) I have to make the pre-amp worse musically, and I wont do it.

[brit-pop]

But no remote.

I get a bit embarrassed about not doing a remote. But the motorised pots are not as good as my pots, and motorised stepped attenuators ditto, and the SA are really hard to find. Electronic and digital volume control circuits are crap, to not put too finer point on it. So in order to remote (at the moment within my experience) I have to make the pre-amp worse musically, and I wont do it.

Rich, I totally get that and have a lot of respect for it. I know that NVA is no compromise music first kit and I wouldn't even suggest you change it for something you'd consider inferior.

So if I prefer it musically I'll man up and get over the remote thing for the love of the music.

[akond_ze_skwak]

Khozmo Acoustic passive preamps - simple, but reasonably priced, I suppose (though never heard them):
http://www.khozmo.com/index.html