Preamp Deal of the Century

Arkio, on one hand the dc power from batteries is a good thing for clean power. But here is something to seriously cosider, with a 16 hour charge life on the battery pack that means on a day like yesterday when I had my system on from 7am thru 2 am which is 19 hours I would have had to get up and change the battery pack at 11 pm or shut the system down and recharge the battery. As you said, I think I'll just stick to my Chennin plugged into the ac for as many continuous hours as I would like.

If battery power was the be-all and end-all solution for audio, then all your portable CD players, ghetto blasters and car CD decks running on 12v batteries etc would be reference sources?? Which they are definately NOT ...

I've owned a tricked up battery powered esoteric Pioneer CD player and the N.E.W DC-33 battery powered Class A amplifier. Nice sounding equipment, but a pain in the a*s charging and replacing batteries when the time comes.

Regards,

Steve.

why do other people try to latch onto to this thread to pimp other brands preamps? i'm sure the h-cat, audio horizon, and dodd preamps are excellent in their own right, but this is a supratek discussion thread.

Exactly! Don't waste your time, jealousy is very difficult to understand.

Honestly, I heard the "battery" powered preamp mentioned by the poster above. This is not new as it has been on the threads at Audio Circle for a long time now. In fact, I recall, it was launched there.

All I can say is that to each his own. I have a Chenin for 4 years now! I am happy, and that's what really matters to me.

regards,

Abe

Don't feed the monster. It only encourages off-topic posts when we respond to the irrelevant intrusions.

Unfortunately any long running owners thread develops a "circle the wagons" attitude toward unasked postings. Personally,I'd just as soon hear direct comparisons made if there's a complete rundown of equipment used/room set up to estimate system/hearing differences and to figure where differences(if any) could originate.

There are ways to hopefully keep the flames down. Perhaps if owners of differing high achievers would start out by asking first if any of the regular posters have made any comparisons,or heard first hand the differing piece in question,maybe the window for "rightous" anger would be a little less wide open.

I would hope we all would still be open to new things mentally. Doesn't have to mean that you'd even be interested in changing anything. Just be open to hear about new products,if posted respectfully.

Would any of us here have been so interested in Supratek if there weren't many comparisons to other pres made,especially in the early days of this thread?