George, that is what I thought but being an E.E. ingnoramus I did not feel comfortable making that claim, or the my EMM Labs CDP seems to have a pretty well built power supply. I think that whatever it is that some prefer with active linestages (even when impedance matching, current, and gain is not a problem), and they have every right to feel that way, it is not something actually in the recording, but a distortion that might "feel" truer to some, but cannot be truer to the source in fact.
The argument of passive versus active may be as unwinnable (and it does not have to be "won") as the old SS/tubes argument, what I feel pretty comfortable saying however, is that in a well matched source, cable, amp environment, the LSA is the best passive volume control I have had in my system after trying all the major alternatives. In a different system setup than what I have, I might prefer a unity gain with buffer, or an active tube linestage.
The argument of passive versus active may be as unwinnable (and it does not have to be "won") as the old SS/tubes argument, what I feel pretty comfortable saying however, is that in a well matched source, cable, amp environment, the LSA is the best passive volume control I have had in my system after trying all the major alternatives. In a different system setup than what I have, I might prefer a unity gain with buffer, or an active tube linestage.