Perreaux Preamps

I wouldn't trust a Conrad Johnson over a Perreaux with a ten foot pole. A Perreaux would blow it away.

Actually the best way to say it is " Get the best Perreaux you can afford, as the Conrad Johnson is not too great to enjoy."
I just compared my Perreaux 350 to my friends CJ stereo power amp and to the both of us the Perreaux sounded much better in all areas of sonic importance. You can brag all you want, but at the end of the day, it’s the Perreaux that wins, and I should know, I did the comparison less than a week ago.

I'm sorry tubegroover, but yes, the blow it away part holds true.At least to me it does. I have owned the supper heavy weight Classe CA-400 at 120 lbs, Class A is the first 80 watts, and while the CA-400 is, was a great amp and still is, I decided to scale it down a little. My decision to buy a brand new Perreaux was after hearing it several times and borrowing it twice over the past 16 months.  I was getting tired of all the heat the Classe was producing and it's weight was bothersome every time I wanted to move it. I also own the Classe CA-301 and this amp is Class A the first 60 watts at 106 lbs.
            I won't go into all the amps I've compared my 350 against so as not to hurt anybody's feelings because you can see I've already hurt a CJ fan.  However, this Prisma at 66 lbs is a lot more manageable and gives me the first 10 watts of Class A  which is fine by me, but it's the sound that wins. I own it, therefore I feel I can comment on it, and 14 months of hard research got me to purchase this Perreaux, and I stand by my purchase. Until anybody can actually hear a recent model of the Prisma 350 you really  don't know what you are missing. It's really not a good idea to bring an older model into the picture.  The best thing I can say here is get yourself to hear a recent model of the Perreaux Prisma 350 and be amazed. This is what happened to me in my search and my 350 is currently on and cooking. It sounds wonderful and I'm very happy with it. I have no regrets, and would buy this amp again in a heart beat.
  Wishing everyone all the best.

I'm very happy to hear that I didn't offend you as I wouldn't want that. As far as my line about "blowing away", well, I guess I was a little excited of the fact that even I couldn't believe how good the Perreaux was. When you wrote without context,  well we did compare both amps for over 6 hours and the Prisma 350 was better in all areas. Bass, mid-range, and the highs.  I really don't want to get into a full review here, but this is just my opinion on the two amps. If anyone feels a CJ can beat a Perreaux, well good for them, but I know what I know, and it's my system, and my system sounds fabulous. I'm being nice here, believe me. This last paragraph was not for you directly, it was for everybody and you did not offend me at all. tubegroover, I wish you many years of happy listening in whatever system you have, and I'm sure it's a great one. I also want to tell you that I own a tube amp and it's the PS Audio BHK Signature 250 in my second system.