That Brown Labs sounds as though it's an excellent buy. It looks great too. I am leaning way over to it right now.
I'm considering replacing my passive preamp with a tubes. Is it worth it?
I would like to know if it would be worth it to trade my passive preamp for tube. Would the change make a significant improvement?
My setup:
Magnepan MG .7
Mod Squad Line Drive passive preamp
Bryston 4b-st amp
Rythmik f12 sub
Bluesound Node
Tidal streaming
My budget on a preamp would be $1k. If the answer is "yes" then opinions would be welcomed.
thanks
My setup:
Magnepan MG .7
Mod Squad Line Drive passive preamp
Bryston 4b-st amp
Rythmik f12 sub
Bluesound Node
Tidal streaming
My budget on a preamp would be $1k. If the answer is "yes" then opinions would be welcomed.
thanks
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I did just that, switch from a passive to a tube pre. I was using a DIY built copy of one of the best current Passives, the Music First Audio Baby Reference. It was truly excellent, neutral, transparent, detailed, but. I felt I was missing some dynamics and changed to a Modwright 36.5 and yes, dynamics were clearly better and the sound was richer. The textures and notes seemed fuller, less dry. So in my case, I definitely preferred the tubed Pre. The Modwright would be above your price range, maybe not the L100. I agree with EBM, if I was looking for a $1000 tubed pre, you couldn't go wrong with CJ. I used the LS17, I think it was, for a few years, a wonderful unit. |
Music First Audio Baby Reference. It was truly excellent, neutral, transparent, detailed, but. I felt I was missing some dynamics Being a passive and seeing what that source signal had to go through, I can understand why it was missing dynamics. That amount of wire and even more in the more in the transformers, would be like putting the dynamics through a funnel. http://upload.review33.com/images/201109/201109171318487268.jpg Cheers George |
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