Trinnov Amethyst

For those of you not familiar with Trinnov, they dominate the Home Theatre market with effectively very advanced preamps called processors. Recently, I rolled the dice having not heard one in a 2-channel system, and pulled out (not sold) a Audio Research Preamp (Ref6se), Holo Audio May KTE (DAC), Holo Audio Red (streamer) and a miniDSP SHD (active crossover and room correction processor) and purchased and replaced them with a Trinnov Amethyst. The Amethyst products is about 5 years old and is designed with the audiophile in mind. It is a beautiful unit and now that I’ve had it in my system for a few weeks, I am overjoyed with the performance it brings to my system. Imaging and sound staging are fantastic and whether I’m using my Rega P10/Umami Red/Rega Aura or am just listening to streaming or my library from my dedicated i9 PC with 2T of music, it sounds fantastic. Easily bettering the imaging and sound staging of the other equipment listed above. Also, a fantastic aspect of this product is the US Based, over the phone, real technical support getting it installed, setup and calibrated. Chuck provided fantastic support holding my hand with this intimidating product. But now that I’ve had it and fiddled with its settings, I don’t know why I was intimidated. It is really pretty simple to use and offers LIGHT YEARS more capability than other, very expensive, preamps.