How much do I need to spend to get a preamp that sounds better than no preamp?

kosst, go away, where ever you go angst follows.   

The same goes for this Aleph L preamp it’s one of his favourites, and it came to us audiophiles when it was needed, as he said "we way to much gain in our sources and amps" so it’s not needed at all in the preamps.

And as you can see in the link the Aleph L in red, it’s a direct path from input to output with nothing but input switch and resistors ladder switch in the signal path, only when the head of the volume arrow goes to the left of resistor marked RV6 does this passive become active. https://ibb.co/j8uwJn

And as he states in the specs of the user manual
https://www.passlabs.com/sites/default/files/alman.pdf
"It’s Distortion at full is < 0.1 % THD," and below 3’oclock it becomes passive.
"The sound is as pure as you can get. The distortion and noise figures you will get at this position are not easily measured."

He also asks you to perform an experiment to see if you can hear the differences the active stage makes when it comes into the signal path above 3 o’clock from being a passive state below 3o’clock.



Cheers George

I’m over you. Go back to your F5 with high gain active preamp and keep pushing it, because you can’t use this Aleph L when it’s at it’s best in passive mode, only maybe after 3 o’clock, and as Nelson says you’ll take a sound quality hit.

And please stop putting **** on the man, your not his **** ****, and never will be.

Cheers George

kosst, when you design and implement the manufacture of an amp that is competitive with FW, maybe, and only then, maybe, will I ever take what you say seriously and worthwhile to read. So, like many other posts of yours on various threads, keep convincing yourself of how smart and wonderful you are. Enjoy ! MrD