Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition

Line Stage Preamps that blew you away $2500 Edition

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these days, with very pure sounding dacs using built in volume controls, it is very easy to test and hear the effect of a linestage interceding between source and power amp

there is no linestage, tube or ss, active or passive, that sounds like nothing - there is always a change, a difference

just like there is a difference if one changes the interconnects

it is never the same, one just needs to decide if the change is positive or negative for oneself

@mitch2 

i hear you... volume control implementation is quite an art in and to itself

i had the sonnet morpheus, which had a volume control, supposedly a later gen adagio in a smaller enclosure

re the pavane vs adagio, it could be the volume control, or one has to wonder if it might be even unit to unit variations, i remember at one point i had two schiit yggy's, same spec, same gen, and one sounded noticeably warmer than other... go figure!

one can drive oneself kinda crazy if the ocd/analytical bent is indulged to a fault