What makes you say that these to preamp’s are comparable?
Didn’t say they were comparable, but what I did say is the Freya has the better volume control system of the two.
And if you know me that’s what I’m heavily into with my product (passive preamps).
As most sources have enough output these days to make any poweramp run to full output (clipping). without a need of an active preamp with even more gain and noise that’s not needed.
A quote from Nelson Pass himself:
"We’ve got lots of gain in our electronics. More gain than some of us need or want. At least 10 db more.
Think of it this way: If you are running your volume control down around 9 o’clock, you are actually throwing away signal level so that a subsequent gain stage can make it back up.
Routinely DIYers opt to make themselves a “passive preamp” - just an input selector and a volume control.
What could be better? Hardly any noise or distortion added by these simple passive parts. No feedback, no worrying about what type of capacitors – just musical perfection.
And yet there are guys out there who don’t care for the result. “It sucks the life out of the music”, is a commonly heard refrain (really - I’m being serious here!). Maybe they are reacting psychologically to the need to turn the volume control up compared to an active preamp."
Cheers George
