“The person that started this thread said "no tubes". Why all the suggestions of tube preamps?”
Experience. By folks understanding what it takes to get great sound. A kind, well intended nudge to reconsider the premises of the question.
Looking for a preamp with XLR connections
Looking for a reference preamp with XLR inputs and outputs. Looking to spend less than 10k, no tubes. Any suggestion? Thought about the schitt Freya+, but audio science review just review it, and the measurements were aweful.
Thank you for your recommendations.
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@luxmancl38 +1 |
The Pre5 is a very nice preamp (I’ve owned it) but for $300 more the Benchmark LA4 is audibly higher in resolution, quieter, and lower in distortion. It also has an additional balanced input over the Pre5, is heavier, and feels much more substantial in use. The differences in sound are not massive but in A/B comparison they are detectable.
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