Well --
anything installed before an amplifier could be argued (grammatically/syntactically) to be a
preamplifier, no matter what it does (or what it
doesn't), given the meaning of the prefix
pre.
We can talk about
pre-breakfast exercise, e.g., which presumably doesn't include
eating.
This being "said" (written
), I actually tend to agree and indeed I typically refer to my own (
ahem)
passive preamp as an attenuator and source selector.
Amusingly enough, and on topic for this thread, I was just spewing some babble about my choice of preamplification device(s) in another thread.
It's a fairly dumb thing to do, but one thing no one has mentioned yet. Tube preamps like to drive tube power amps because they have high input impedance. Solid state power amps have much lower input impedance than tube power amps. And tube preamps have higher output impedance than solid...
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It's a fairly dumb thing to do, but one thing no one has mentioned yet. Tube preamps like to drive tube power amps because they have high input impedance. Solid state power amps have much lower input impedance than tube power amps. And tube preamps have higher output impedance than solid...
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