Sir, I have been waiting for a review of these speakers, so thank you for that. However, greater thanks to your generosity in sharing your recording of Jonas Nordwall’s excellent organ work.

There was a fantastic pizza restaurant in Portland called the Organ Grinder, which as you may have deduced, featured a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ. It was a magical place to visit as a child in the ‘80s, and I was fortunate enough to work there in the ‘90s, before zoning and customers’ changing interests forced the owner to shutter its doors and sell off the organ piece-by-piece.

Mr. Nordwall was possibly the Organ Grinder’s premiere organist. My experiences there influenced my love of spectacle in music (in moderation, of course), and also what began my quest for good sound reproduction. My audio setup doubles as a home theater, but in truth the reason I have two 18” subwoofers is to try and recreate, even on a small scale, the experience of listening to that organ.

As an aside, a local documentarian is creating a film on the Organ Grinder. We recently heard Mr. Nordwall was interviewed for the film. I recon it will be worth watching when it eventually is released.

Sir, I have been waiting for a review of these speakers, so thank you for that. However, greater thanks to your generosity in sharing your recording of Jonas Nordwall’s excellent organ work.

There was a fantastic pizza restaurant in Portland called the Organ Grinder, which as you may have deduced, featured a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ. It was a magical place to visit as a child in the ‘80s, and I was fortunate enough to work there in the ‘90s, before zoning and customers’ changing interests forced the owner to shutter its doors and sell off the organ piece-by-piece.

Mr. Nordwall was possibly the Organ Grinder’s premiere organist. My experiences there influenced my love of spectacle in music (in moderation, of course), and also what began my quest for good sound reproduction. My audio setup doubles as a home theater, but in truth the reason I have two 18” subwoofers is to try and recreate, even on a small scale, the experience of listening to that organ.

As an aside, a local documentarian is creating a film on the Organ Grinder. We recently heard Mr. Nordwall was interviewed for the film. I recon it will be worth watching when it eventually is released.

Sir, I have been waiting for a review of these speakers, so thank you for that. However, greater thanks to your generosity in sharing your recording of Jonas Nordwall’s excellent organ work.

There was a fantastic pizza restaurant in Portland called the Organ Grinder, which as you may have deduced, featured a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ. It was a magical place to visit as a child in the ‘80s, and I was fortunate enough to work there in the ‘90s, before zoning and customers’ changing interests forced the owner to shutter its doors and sell off the organ piece-by-piece.

Mr. Nordwall was possibly the Organ Grinder’s premiere organist. My experiences there influenced my love of spectacle in music (in moderation, of course), and also what began my quest for good sound reproduction. My audio setup doubles as a home theater, but in truth the reason I have two 18” subwoofers is to try and recreate, even on a small scale, the experience of listening to that organ.

As an aside, a local documentarian is creating a film on the Organ Grinder. We recently heard Mr. Nordwall was interviewed for the film. I recon it will be worth watching when it eventually is released.

Sir, I have been waiting for a review of these speakers, so thank you for that. However, greater thanks to your generosity in sharing your recording of Jonas Nordwall’s excellent organ work.

There was a fantastic pizza restaurant in Portland called the Organ Grinder, which as you may have deduced, featured a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ. It was a magical place to visit as a child in the ‘80s, and I was fortunate enough to work there in the ‘90s, before zoning and customers’ changing interests forced the owner to shutter its doors and sell off the organ piece-by-piece.

Mr. Nordwall was possibly the Organ Grinder’s premiere organist. My experiences there influenced my love of spectacle in music (in moderation, of course), and also what began my quest for good sound reproduction. My audio setup doubles as a home theater, but in truth the reason I have two 18” subwoofers is to try and recreate, even on a small scale, the experience of listening to that organ.

As an aside, a local documentarian is creating a film on the Organ Grinder. We recently heard Mr. Nordwall was interviewed for the film. I recon it will be worth watching when it eventually is released.

J. Austin: "Counterintuitively, passive devices—even resistors—cause more, not less, noise and distortion".

So you and the skeptics are saying that a say 10kohm Alps pot as a passive preamp creates more noise and distortions than the same 10kohm Alps pot in an active preamp??
(Yeah, good luck with that theory) https://tinyurl.com/2882r77d

Cheers George

I was impressed by this and many of the other products they have. Zero bling factor unless you look inside or listen. Other reviews have echoed their impressive performance. I wish I had the dosh to look more seriously.

Any passive preamp volume control in the correct "i/o impedance environment" has less noise/distortion and coloration than any active preamp could possibly hope to have, and just as much "drive & dynamics", than an active pre using the same volume control in it's circuit.
Sure if you put a $1 Chinese pot in a passive pre and then use $100 pot in an active pre then things could be closer.
Cheers George

Quote:"During a brief period in my 20s when I fancied myself handy, before I decided to never again burn myself with hot solder, I built a rudimentary passive volume control using an ALPS potentiometer, some RCA jacks, and a few bits of wire, mounted in a wooden cigar box. It probably won't surprise you that it sounded kind of shitty."

This statement says nothing about i/o impedances with this, as he had no knowledge that's very important to get right with passives, and it shows because of the self confessed lack of soldering experience.

Cheers George