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    MEASUREMENTS

    Jan 07, 2020 3 minutes
    —John Atkinson

    measured the Dan D’Agostino Momentum HD’s performance with my Audio Precision SYS2722 system (see the January 2008 “As We See It”), checking some of the measurements with a loaned sample of Audio Precision’s top-of-the-line AP555x system. The gain at 1kHz for the balanced inputs to the balanced output with the volume control set to the maximum was 10.85dB for the low-gain setting, which was how JVS auditioned the preamplifier. (Unless indicated otherwise, all the measurements were taken with this gain setting.) Setting the gain to “26” resulted in a gain

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