When the Saga is at max volume it is essentially a direct connection between the source and the amp with no internal resistance. At any other setting it is both a resistor in series with the amp and a resistor in parallel to the amp. The powered off amp has an input impedance even when off...

It can't be distorting in passive mode. It just resistors then. The problem must be your amplifier or speakers.

The buffer is more about compatibility with long cable runs than low input impedance amplifiers. In neither case is the effect a large one unless the input impedance is stupidly low or the cables are 20+ feet long or of an extremely high capacitance design. Your 10K input impedance using the...

Comparing the two is kind of a waste. They are different experiences. If you want to try to reproduce what a live performance sounds like, speakers are the only thing that comes close. Headphones just don't produce the sense of a band arrayed in front of you or the body thump of a bass drum...

The tube buffer output impedance is not the same at all frequencies, it rises a little at the low end. This, in series with the input impedance of the amp will result in a slight rolloff of the low's. Very slight and with most amps, too slight to think you would hear it. The passive output...

The Saga volume control doesn't got to 0. There is a mute switch. In passive mode it is only putting two resistors between your source and your amp. If you are using cables from the Saga to your AMP that are longer than 10 feet or have very high capacitance it may roll off the highs a...

That's your opinion. Completely unsupported by actual facts. Paul Barton spends untold hours in an anechoic chamber measuring his designs. I am absolutely sure he doesn't accept "high distortion in the bass"

Well you can read the crossover specs on their website and in the manuals. My PSB doesn't nor does the ELAC I just installed for a friend.

OK, so it's not MTM any more. They turn one of the midrange's into a dedicated woofer. I don't think most companies do that. That wouldn't make it not work standing up. It would just be a 3 way instead of a two way and have a little different vertical radiation pattern.

Comb filtering happens for people that are off axis of an MTM center speaker because of path length differences between the two midrange drivers. How could you fix that in the crossover? Even if you could, it would be for only one position.

Hmm. So can't be wrong. Hmmm. And anything that is marketed and sold as an audio improvement has to be one or they wouldn't sell it. Here is a quote from Schiit audio concerning their USB cleaner-upper. "Yes. Some listeners say Wyrd improves the sound of their system. We won't make any...

The putdowns begin. We're used to it. The audio reviewers at the high end magazines subjectivists usually admire think very highly of the speakers I own, Mid priced speaker of the year at TAS when they first reviewed it. Stereophile raved about it too. I think Paul Barton knows what he is...

Not understanding the assertion and not agreeing with it aren't the same thing. You believe than an error free transmission of data to a DAC can be differentiated by ear from another error free data transmission to a DAC due considerations other than data errors. I don't. It's a common...

A statistically valid test can be applied to a single person. Medical tests are a different matter as you can't both treat and not treat the same person over and over until you get a statistically valid sample. You can, for example, easily prove whether a given individual can foretell the...

I am quite sure he is working on those things because he thinks it will improve something. He also said streaming audio sound terrible. That is not what most people have experienced. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Engineers will work on they want to work on. People will buy what...