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Just received my new Luxman CL-1000 pre-amp.

Took the plunge and went for Luxman’s new flagship CL-1000 pre-amp. My preceding unit was the c900u and it’s as good everyone says. So what are my initial thoughts on the CL-1000 with less 20 hours on it: pure path into the music with a naturism only one who hears it will be able to understand how good it’s. Startling when the music matches its powers of emotion it can deliver on voices, drums and every instrument the recording has to offer. As good as the C900u is the CL-1000 is clearly a big step up! Only two complaints: no remote ( they didn’t want anything to interfere with their new SOTA
volume control) and no mute button. I can live with these minor inconveniences considering what it brings to the table. I’m not a dealer or associate with Luxman in anyway. I’ll keep posted updates on the unit once it has been fully broke in.
hiendmmoe
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joeinid
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It’s too bad that the CL-1000 has no remote control. That’s unfortunately a deal breaker for me. I understand why not but all I need/want is volume control.
viber6
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The sound quality is everything.  Not much effort to get up from your chair to adjust volume manually.  Often you know the setting on the vol control for each recording, so you could just keep the vol control set and merely turn the power amp on/off.  If you remember that a particular recording is mastered at a high vol, you could take the precaution of turning the vol down for that one, but many recordings are mastered at comparable levels, so that is not needed.
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kingsleuy
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OMG!!  I had a CL-1000 back in the 80's!  It was solid state.  Looks identical.  I think it was around , $1000.00?  The mute function was hidden on the volume control.  You would tap on the control knob.  I thought the cl-32 (tube) sounded better.  Will admit, I bought it because it matched the M-4000 power amp I already owned..

hiendmmoe OP
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Kingsley, what you had was the C-1000 not the CL-1000. It only looks like the CL-1000. Sonically they couldn’t be more different. Besides being a tube pre-amp the CL-1000 was designed around transformer coupled volume control.
Also SOTA parts implementation today are above and beyond what was used in the 70’s. It may look similar, but that’s as far as their similarities go.
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arichison
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I made my first real hi end audio  purchase in the 80's for a Luxman piece. Sounded so smooth and natural, had the caps done and more fifteen years later and kept using it, loved that amp sound.
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