Wyetech Jade and TRL Dude

Please excuse this response since it does not really benefit your inquiry. I can comment on the Jade in comparison to a Shindo Aurieges. I preferred the Jade in my system. It presented an expansive soundstage while maintaining a SS signature. It relays a very neutral, precise representation of the source. The Shindo was amazing in its own right, but representative of tubed equipment in overall signature. Not bad by any means...after all, it would be my recommendation for any other pre when leaning towards a slightly less neutral impression. Read the 6moons review on the Jade and Opal...some really good information on these.

Thanks, this is helpful (and i did read the review). I am trying to place these (absolutely and relatively) along the neutrality scale, so this helps. i tend to like the less neutral.

gary

Gary, I have come to strictly accept neutrality in audio. Coloration is acceptable only for coloring books.

You will be hard pressed to find one who has heard both in the same system to be frank. I can say the Dude is vastly superior to every single top rated preamp I have heard in my system. Please read my review of it. I list the many preamps I have gone through. I was most conservative in that review holding back the wide margin in which the Dude out-classed those other preamps. I mean a very wide margin.

It just sounds more like music compared to any other piece of gear I have heard. That good to my ears, mind and senses.

I just finished listening to Van The Man and was once again lost in the music. Great fun.

The Dude must be heard to be believed. No words will ever quite get the whole of it.