CJ GAT Preamp VS ART 3 which one is the best?

I believe it is $20,000

Just out of curiosity, if you don't mind me asking, who told you the GAT was better than the ART 3? With so few of either preamp in service, it would seem to me to be very rare for someone other than a person at C-J to have had the ability to hear them side by side in a true comparison.

I have an ART 2 and am trying to decide betweeen upgrading mine to an ART 3 or buying a GAT so I too am very interested in this question. My gut reaction is that the ART 3 is the better unit.

Thx,

Frank

Thanks Sinchan007, that helps. I have a call in to Lew to discuss this as well but it really does put him in a difficult position to pit one SOTA design against another. While I do like simplicity, I have to wonder if CJ went back to the one chassis designs to keep costs down. I have always loved the dual chassis design with the five 6922s linked in parallel. I also dislike the 6H30 tube so at least the GAT disposed of that.

Downunder, thanks as well. I always find it fairly instuctive when I discover what the designer/manufacturer actually uses in his/her own system. The fact the Lew uses an ART 3 at home does tell me something. For reasons that aren't important here, it would cost me less to get a GAT right now than upgrade my CJ (and that even presumes selling my ART 2 at a fire sale price given the market). That said, I am still leaning toward the ART 3.

Frank