Hello all, I purchased one of these units (second hand) recently and have been surprised at how much of an improvement the Lightspeed appears to be over all my previous preamps. I have owned some well regarded solid state and valve preamps but for the last few years have been moving into passives. I like the quietness and lack of an electronic signature that they bring. A Silk transformer TVC was followed by a Slagleformer module based pre which I thought was about as good as it could get in terms of naturalness and detail with no loss of dynamics.
Well the lightspeed has pushed out the boundaries considerably. It transmits even more low level detail which seems to expand and flesh out the soundstage. High frequencies are very extended. Tonal colour is enriched and there is more space around voices and instruments. I have not noticed any loss of dynamics or bass which was a strong point of the Slagleformers. Only downside apart from its very basic nature is that my system has a lot of gain so I dont get far off the bottom of the volume control travel at normal levels.
It is a remarkable unit even ignoring the modest price and I scratch my head at the increase in signal transmitted by, as I understand it , the removal of one less than direct connection(the volume control). Should we therefore be soldering our speaker wires to the amps and speakers etc.? Or is this a different issue.
Either way I am very glad I made this purchase.
Regards, Andrew
Well the lightspeed has pushed out the boundaries considerably. It transmits even more low level detail which seems to expand and flesh out the soundstage. High frequencies are very extended. Tonal colour is enriched and there is more space around voices and instruments. I have not noticed any loss of dynamics or bass which was a strong point of the Slagleformers. Only downside apart from its very basic nature is that my system has a lot of gain so I dont get far off the bottom of the volume control travel at normal levels.
It is a remarkable unit even ignoring the modest price and I scratch my head at the increase in signal transmitted by, as I understand it , the removal of one less than direct connection(the volume control). Should we therefore be soldering our speaker wires to the amps and speakers etc.? Or is this a different issue.
Either way I am very glad I made this purchase.
Regards, Andrew