Tortuga Preamps

If only the Lightspeed had 3 inputs......I would sacrifice a " little " in sq for the convenience. George feels it sacrifices a lot in sq, and who am I to doubt him. Likely the best passive out there. Which, to me, means, it is the best, as I no longer hear the benefit ( s ) of an active preamp ( ime, imo ). However, my Luminous is quite " invisible ". YMMV.....Enjoy ! MrD.

If only the Lightspeed had 3 inputs......I would sacrifice a " little " in sq for the convenience. George feels it sacrifices a lot in sq

Like I say to all that ask for a multiple input Lightspeed, you can always get one of these to put in front of it, http://www.goldpt.com/sw4.html that way you still have the option to leave it out, when you want seriously listen without any source switching in the signal path.
As that’s what the Lightspeed Attenuator is all about, "no contacts at all in the signal path", volume control or input switches, from your source to speakers

Cheers George

George, I had thought that the Tortuga's calibration of the LDR's LED control current curve is invoked periodically by the user on an as-needed basis, not "actively" or on-the-fly.  If it's performed only periodically, how will this degrade SQ? 

Recluse, I enjoyed mine very much. It is very open and transparent. I was surprised to see that it measured so poorly. I have gone back to my active preamp due to selling my separate phono stage.

Love my Tortuga !