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Sonic Frontiers- Quality and Reliability?

The SF Line 1 and Line 2 intrigue me because they offer so many features- balanced in/out, headphone out(any good?), remote control, and so on. But, I've read a number of comments about the poor reliability of the Sonic Frontiers Preamps.

From you guys using this product, can you please advise me?

Is the Line 1 or 2 good sonically?
Is the headphone function decent?
How's the reliability?

Thanks in advance for your guidance!

Dan
danlib1
leeph
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I've owned my Line 1 for a couple of years and very happy with it. But after an hour or so of playing the volume knob on it does not operate. The volume control on the remote works fine. I have it in a cabinet with only 1 1/2" clearance. Is there something overheating that causes this? The top of the chassis does get hot. Has anyone have this same problem?
danlib1 OP
819 posts
 
Thanks so much guys for your responses!

I'm enjoying my Line 2- it's a great piece of work.

Now, any suggestions for retubing :) ?

Thanks again, Dan
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kr4
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Anyone want to comment on the necessity/value of tube matching on these units, especially the Line-3?

Kal
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