All this from a preamp, eh?
With all due respect, there's no reason to assume that only those pre-amps with outboard power supplies are 'good' condidates for what you seek. An excellent power conditioner should equal and even better the sonics of any pre-amp with an external power supply.
Furthermore, the iron-fisted grip you speak of (though I suppose may be possible via a pre-amp) is most always found primarily in the amplifier. It is the amplifier's job to take absolute control over the drivers of a given speaker. However, in my limited experience few amplifiers exhibit this characteristic.
The best iron fisted dynamics I've heard by a long shot was in my system with the APL 3910 cdp. That's without a pre-amp as the APL has it's own volume attenuation.
But to cloud the issue even further, it is simply impossible to obtain all that you seek from just one component. It is a syergistic thing in which all components must partake. But even the most iron-fisted components strong suits will be greatly deminished without proper line conditioning, proper vibration control, dedicated circuits/lines, and proper ics and scs.
I use the word 'proper' implying that the 'improper' exists. And if your system is missing any or all of the above, you may already have the pre-amp you are seeking but would never know it.
-IMO
With all due respect, there's no reason to assume that only those pre-amps with outboard power supplies are 'good' condidates for what you seek. An excellent power conditioner should equal and even better the sonics of any pre-amp with an external power supply.
Furthermore, the iron-fisted grip you speak of (though I suppose may be possible via a pre-amp) is most always found primarily in the amplifier. It is the amplifier's job to take absolute control over the drivers of a given speaker. However, in my limited experience few amplifiers exhibit this characteristic.
The best iron fisted dynamics I've heard by a long shot was in my system with the APL 3910 cdp. That's without a pre-amp as the APL has it's own volume attenuation.
But to cloud the issue even further, it is simply impossible to obtain all that you seek from just one component. It is a syergistic thing in which all components must partake. But even the most iron-fisted components strong suits will be greatly deminished without proper line conditioning, proper vibration control, dedicated circuits/lines, and proper ics and scs.
I use the word 'proper' implying that the 'improper' exists. And if your system is missing any or all of the above, you may already have the pre-amp you are seeking but would never know it.
-IMO