Pardon me for repeating what I stated at the good Dr.'s site (Customer Feedback):
"I want to tell you how enormously pleased I am with the Line 2A SE you built for me. After playing for several hours yesterday I sat down for some critical listening in the evening. My criticalness quickly turned to fun, loading CD after CD for a few tracks on each (which went like: ... Wow! OK, but how about THIS track? … Excellent! OK, how about THIS one? Fantastic! …) What a joy! This is an awesome preamp. I hear detail unheard before, yet the overall sound is smooth as can be. Regardless of the type of music played, it all sounds fabulous: detailed, rich, full, clear, extended on both ends. Even with less than stellar recorded material. While testing its capabilities listening to Dave Brubeck, Rory Block, Jennifer Warnes, Edgar Winter, Luca Bloom, Jimi Hendrix, Anita O’Day, Mark Murphy, Patricia Barber, Keb Mo, etc., it quickly became obvious that you build one heck of a preamp. Brass and woodwind instruments sound like brass and woodwind instruments, not just some indiscriminant reproduction of notes. A saxaphone has a reed, and I want to hear that reed. With your preamp I do. I don’t understand how one could get a clearer, more detailed sound without losing musicality. This preamp is just darned fun to experience. I wonder why so many preamps out there are so much larger, complicated, and more expensive? For what purpose? But then again I don’t care, now that I have one of yours. All I know is at this point I am so completely, overwhelmingly satisfied with my system now, that I am finally done searching for audio nirvana. Seriously. With your preamp, I finally have it! And I (and my wife) LOVE IT!"
That was a couple of months ago, and to this day I cannot imagine ever changing it out for anything else. I like it that much, and I am very very picky when it comes to sound quality.
