Momentum preamplifier

joeinid said:
Thanks Jim. At least you have something fun to look forward to in your system. It's a great piece. Already a classic in my mind.

ps Is there any way to turn off the light on the dial. It's pretty bright.
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There is an adjustment for the meter but I did not have the manual when I auditioned the unit in my home.
 
Congrats, Joe! Great to hear you opened it, tried it, and are lovin' it now!:woot::woot:
 
My local dealer just received the Dag preamp, so I went in to have a look and a listen. coupled with dag mono's and Wilson Alexia speakers.

The dag preamp really is a work of ART. Everything exudes quality and the volume control around the dial has to be seen and used to believe - absolutely wonderful.

I know Joe has discussed the tone controls and now that I have used and listened, I cannot fathom how Dan D let the pre amp go to market with no zero mark. - and + one on the tone controls are audible.
I actually liked the -1 bass and +1 treble with the Alexia's as I found the new tweeter a bit laid back/diffuse.
the tone controls are not a deal breaker, but the lack of a zero mark is frustrating.

Overall a beautiful pre amp and it sounded wonderful.

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XV-1 said:
My local dealer just received the Dag preamp, so I went in to have a look and a listen. coupled with dag mono's and Wilson Alexia speakers.

The dag preamp really is a work of ART. Everything exudes quality and the volume control around the dial has to be seen and used to believe - absolutely wonderful.

I know Joe has discussed the tone controls and now that I have used and listened, I cannot fathom how Dan D let the pre amp go to market with no zero mark. - and + one on the tone controls are audible.
I actually liked the -1 bass and +1 treble with the Alexia's as I found the new tweeter a bit laid back/diffuse.
the tone controls are not a deal breaker, but the lack of a zero mark is frustrating.

Overall a beautiful pre amp and it sounded wonderful.
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I also do not like the fact that when the preamp is put on mute, the dial lights flash green and white. I assume to let you the preamp is muted but c'mon, is that really necessary. A simple color change without the flashing would have been better. In a darkened room it's like an ambulance is passing by. So now I don't mute it, I turn down the volume. Still no way to dim or turn off the dial light on the preamp like on the amps.
 
Wow

I guess I never muted the thing. But now that i tried it, That is ridiculous looking.
 
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Do you guys think it was a little half baked? Rushed to market? I remember when the amps came out, people were almost immediately saying "what about a preamp Dan?"

I think it looks great and probably sounds great.
 
Joe...Dan mentioned this when he did the demo at Fideliis but look hrough the manual as I believe there is a way to defeat that feature.
 
cmalak said:
Joe...Dan mentioned this when he did the demo at Fideliis but look hrough the manual as I believe there is a way to defeat that feature.
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Hi Cyril,

Short of a programming change (if that is even possible), there is no way to defeat this "feature". Besides, there really is NO manual, yet.
 
I don't have a clue if it was rushed per se. I really think that these things are more the fact that Dan is a great engineer and engineers seem like they really don't live in the real world. So a lot of these "good ideas" just don't appeal to the public as well as to him. He has said that he purposely didn't do a 0 position on the tome controls because he wanted +-6 db and only had 12 positions. I'll bet that he thought if the preamp is on mute, it should have some big notice to the user that it's muted. These were decisions that he made and time/money didn't have anything to do with it. It wasn't like they ran out of time to design or fix it.

As he gets feedback, I'll bet that he will change some things.

Just my thoughts.
 
joeinid said:
Hi Cyril,

Short of a programming change (if that is even possible), there is no way to defeat this "feature". Besides, there really is NO manual, yet.
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He mentioned being able to defeat the light on the front dial somehow. Maybe worth a call to ask.
 
joeinid said:
Hi Cyril,

Short of a programming change (if that is even possible), there is no way to defeat this "feature". Besides, there really is NO manual, yet.
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My Dealer literally received his direct from D'Agostino this week and no manual was with the unit.
 
With all due respect to DD, I think it is monumentally unforgivable to have equipment at this price point and not have a manual for the preamp. I just went on his website and there isn't even an online version. You know for $32K, a manual is not too much to ask for, is it??
 
cmalak said:
With all due respect to DD, I think it is monumentally unforgivable to have equipment at this price point and not have a manual for the preamp. I just went on his website and there isn't even an online version. You know for $32K, a manual is not too much to ask for, is it??
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cmalak said:
With all due respect to DD, I think it is monumentally unforgivable to have equipment at this price point and not have a manual for the preamp. I just went on his website and there isn't even an online version. You know for $32K, a manual is not too much to ask for, is it??
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DD probably expects his dealers making the big margins to be conducting any training required for his pre and amps. For any audiophile, the pre and amp are not difficult to setup or use.

That said, a manual for the pre and amp would be nice, thanking us for buying at least :snicker: after all some of us need some reinforcement. :blush:

BTW. Did I say that the volume control on the front of the pre is the BEST I have ever seen or used. :heart:
It sort of makes you want to walk up and use it.
 
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