Recent content by Plekuz

Good luck with finding an amp that suits you. One thing to note about the Audiolab which is not something you might think about. If you plan to connect the amp to your TV with a toslink cable, the Audiolab offers jitter correction on the optical 2 connection (PPL wide setting) which eliminates...

Yes, yes I did and you asking about it is timed very well. Since yesterday I have an Audiolab 6000A Play and retired the Marantz. The Audiolab has a very precise volume control and sounds every bit as good as the Marantz did, plus the streaming capabilities are a nice bonus. Not a cheap...

Ah, so it is probably more or less the other way around from my initial thought: more expensive and more powerful amps have better volume control, because the customer does not have to be fooled with the "getting loud fast" trickery.

Silly question, but I honestly don't know for sure: does the output wattage of an amp matter in how far you have to turn the volume dial between different levels? Mine is 45W (at 8ohm) and say I have to turn the dial 10 degrees to gain 10dB (fictional numbers). When I change the amp for a 90W...

I think you are right. I would not do that no. First and foremost the amp must sound right, second it must have the options I am looking for and somewhere in the end it would be welcome to have a better volume control. Wait, do we know each other? Nah, I would never be THAT big of a...

I see there are attenuators for optical cables, since my TV is connected via one to the amp. However: placing an attenuator between my turntable and the phone stage of the amp? The signal is pretty weak by itself. I suspect a lot of negative influence to the signal if an attenuator was in there...

That is a nice idea. The Marantz PM6006 is not network enabled, but an "old fashioned" universal remote might be working better than the one I got with the Marantz. Or get a network enabled amp and use the app for it! You got me thinking in a direction I had not thought of before. I have been...

Thank you for the suggestion, but according to https://forums.whathifi.com/threads/marantz-pm6006-or-denon-pma800ne.111346/post-1196506 the volume pot is just as bad. Since Denon and Marantz are more or less the same company that is not too big of a shock really.

Good to hear, maybe I am a nitpicker and what you said about "quiet to loud too quickly" is bothering me more. Sadly not. Which in a nice roundabout way brings me back to part of my original question: which amps in the price range given? Because the amps Insider9 mentions are all very very...

Haha, yeah my current pattern is pressing the volume up and down buttons on the remote furiously a couple of times, get miffed because it is not doing what I want and then walk over to the amp and have a smaller battle with the volume dial. Lol, hope my neighbors agree as well with that...

Thank you, but it is not going from inaudible to ear deafening loud. It is more like it skips two or three levels of volume control between each press on the remote and then when I try to turn the dial on the amp to one of the skipped levels it seems not to respond immediately to every minor...

Hi, I have got a Marantz PM6006 hooked up to my Audio Technica LP5 turntable and via an optical cable to my TV. The speakers are Dali Zensor 3. Generally I am very happy with the setup and love the sound coming from my Marantz. However, a big gripe is the volume control through the remote and...