Sorry guys for my delay to respond, but I got computer problems.....
At first, thanxs you a lot for your help.
>Rcprince
Yes, you're totally right, I was about to buy an ARC LS5 preamp. But three things happen :
- at first, I've listened to the LS5 - not in my system - however with my Pass Aleph 0 amplifier, a total DCS source system, and very big JBL speakers. I found the whole thing really good. I mean technically very good, in term of space, 3D, air beetween musicians, and rapidity. But I don't find it to be relaxing, it was actually stressing and tiring.
I don't know : perhaps the dcs (many people said me it was a stressing system), perhaps the cables, perhaps the big JBL.
Whatever it was, the system hadn't the warmth, the softness and the relaxing stuff I am looking for with a tube preamp, so my opinion on the LS5 is quite relative (but that's true I should have done a listening in my own system to get a clear idea).
- at second, many friends finally discourage me to take a full-symetric system. That't true that, as good as the LS5 is, it will nevertheless obliges me, in the future, to get a dvd player with symetric outputs, a turntable with symetric outputs, event a cd player with symetric poutputs since mine don't have.
So, I've decided that it wasn't necessary a good idea for me to get a LS5.
Many people said me that I could take a comparable sound in getting an ARC LS25 mk1, that has RCA inputs. Many others said the LS5 was the best ARC has never made, and that ARC new products (that is the ls25) were not so good, so I don't know.....
- at third, I dream for a long time of a Lamm system, that I found it to be exactly what I am looking for : just warm as it has to be, soft and relaxing listening, yeahhhhh : really good, very musical and plesant to listen to.
So what was I looking for a LS5 ? Just because Lamm products are very rare here in France, so that you can not seriously consider to find one a day (I mean on the used market).
But the miracle happen few days ago, and I'm proposed today with a Lamm L1 preamp.
As I said, I'm just a little bit afraid, because I am looking to a tube preamp as the LL2 for example, because each time I listen to something that is plesant to my ears, I've noticed there are tubes inside.
I like the warmth and esay-listening of tubes, I love the humanity they give to voices.
So I love the LL2, that I've listened a lot.
I'm proposed with a L1, that I've never heard, and that has no tubes inside.
But every people said it sounds as the LL2.
Many said it doesn't sounds like a solid-state engine, that's encouraging for me.
But no one says it sound like tube units.
I don't know what to do, and I've no way to listen to one here in France.
> Dmailer
Thanxs for your appreciation, you're one of those who confirm me that it is not sounding like solid-state units, that I don't like.
> All
Thanxs you all for your help,
Have a nice day,
Best regards,
Steve
