The Premier 14 has the CJ house sound but cleaner and it is better than the PV14L2. The 17LS1 would be closer but a more neutral preamp. I have problems with my Premier 14 but it was related to the service at cj (should a tube replacement take 6 months and 4 round trips because they send you the wrong tubes the first time, plus billing problems?)
Anyway the Premier 14 and the 17LS should be large improvements if you want to deal with CJ. I will never deal with them again unless I have a backup equipment to deal with the times between service.
The Premier 14's volumn control is really noisy with each click it snaps physically (Something to do with the Vishay's resisters. Placette did a much better job and was a lot cleaner since single only goes through one versus the array of 3 on the CJ to cut costs...)
Anyway the Premier 14 and the 17LS should be large improvements if you want to deal with CJ. I will never deal with them again unless I have a backup equipment to deal with the times between service.
The Premier 14's volumn control is really noisy with each click it snaps physically (Something to do with the Vishay's resisters. Placette did a much better job and was a lot cleaner since single only goes through one versus the array of 3 on the CJ to cut costs...)