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Preamp Choices for a niche setup - Pro Audio Hybrid?

Budget and location - 2k to 5k; - United States - California
How the gear will be used - 10X15 room with 20 foot ceilings primarily for stereo music
New or used -new/used
Past gear experience - Wharfedale Lintons with boutique DACS, AS2200 Yamaha, Rose streamers

Hi,
Just moved, building a hifi system for a living room / dining room shared area

Current signal flow:
* Bluesound Node N132 streamer (only for eARC path and spotify connect)
> Lynx Hilo DAC (yes pro audio)
> preamplifier (NEEDED)
> Parasound A21+ amplifier
> speakers (NEEDED)

Needs from preamplifier:

  • Tone shaping (ESPECIALLY!!! - bass treble etc)
  • Balanced XLR in/out (must have)
  • Strong voltage output + very low noise
  • Low output impedance
  • High-quality volume control
  • DAC on preamplifier will be bypassed

Considering:
Parasound Halo P6

I'm considering the Polk R700s at the moment as a baseline for the speakers but I'm not fully committed to them yet. I just want an awesome foundation that new preamps and speakers can be inserted to. I'm leaning towards a Parasound Halo P6 at the moment, but I think there may be other options for perhaps better tone controls and EQ or even DIRAC. Keep in mind the preamplifier would not do much aside from setting crossovers and powering the sub and doing tone controls

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u/Relevant_Ad3184 — 3 days ago
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South Irvine - Newport Coast connection reliability problems near Turtle Ridge

Issue - severe connection instability that comes in waves.

Happens with 1GB and 3GB lines. I upgraded to 3GB to be sure. Happens with both different router models (1GB and 3GB models). It is a hard wired connection. Attached are traceroutes. The first hop is not problematic, which is connection from the desktop to the router. It appears to be some sort of routing issue or hardware switch issue when routing traffic towards LA backbone.

I have provided an array of troubleshooting documentation and have called in as well to no avail. The response from the rep is:

"I understand and I'm sorry for this issue, but we already checked with the engineering department and we tried to fix it remotely but it wasn't possible and for that reason we have to send a tech to check physically the devices."

My devices are fine. I hope they don't send an "Install tech", but someone that's actually checking the hardware nodes that the fiber line plugs into outside the property. I have to now wait 3 days for them to send a tech out to verify my devices are fine. The issue that they will send someone in the AM, and the issue appears to progressively get worse as the day goes on.

They may or may not catch it in action when they come. This is kind of frustrating to move to such a nice neighborhood, and I chose this neighborhood because of the raving reviews about google fiber but it's performing so poorly. There are no alternate fiber options, only coax line from COX. Holy smokes. Am I cooked?

u/Relevant_Ad3184 — 14 days ago