Tortuga Preamps

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Love my Tortuga !

That’s good stay with it, they are still way better than any other form of passive or active volume control.

Dartzeel use them the same way I do as their "Pleasure Control" in their $18k preamp
https://www.stereophile.com/solidpreamps/607dart/index.html
Half way down the page,https://6moons.com/audioreviews/dartzeel2/preamp_4.html explains the "Pleasure Control" (Lightspeed volume control), patents were never granted, I saw to that being the originator back in the 70’s 80’s

The only thing that can better them and the Lightspeed Attenuator, is direct connection between source and poweramp using the sources digital domain volume control, but these must be used at or above 75% to avoid any "bit stripping" IE: 16bit resolution down to 14bit and so on the lower you go with them.

Cheers George

Thanks for the elaboration,
Sounds intriguing.

Are these still being made and what is the link to purchase? 
Are these offered with real balanced connections.?

https://www.tortugaaudio.com/

Are these still being made and what is the link to purchase?
Are these offered with real balanced connections.?

Yes send a PM or there are many other ways just Google, or if you have the diy skills build one for yourself, as I've given all the instructions here.  
https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/analog-line-level/80194-lightspeed-attenuator-passive-preamp.html

And no I don't believe in xlr, unless your in a studio with with lots of noise problems, extra long runs of interconnects.
My customers use these if they need, XLR to RCA adapters, Neutirk being fair value for money, some are much less expensive 
 https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/wrMAAOSwDk5UBLdo/s-l300.jpg

Cheers George 

I try desperately to stay out of the subjective vs. measured debate...it gets so old and tired.

I try to keep it simple. Do you like what you hear? Yes? Stay with it.

Don’t like what you hear? Try something else.

Is that so hard?

I know people read all these things about what’s good and what’s not and what are they to believe? Please, tell me what to believe!!!!

The neurochrome report screams one thing and one thing only in my view. It does a very good job at making the point that measurement (beyond a certain threshold point) is simply not relevant or informative.

One would think that neurochrome’s measurements would indicate that the Tortuga model that was measured would sound awful. It does not!

Moreover, we are several iterations beyond the model measured by neurochrome and it only gets better.

Trust your ears.

Cheers,
Morten