Congratulations on a great review, Dan.
I will be receiving my LS36.5 and SWP9.0SE within a few days and look forward to comparing it to a recently updated Supratek Cortese, which I imported for a while back in 2001 and have used off and on...mostly on....for the last several years. No doubt that the Supratek products can sound great, but there is also no doubt that they are not the best built pieces of gear and also not nearly the best in terms of electrical layout and design. The Supratek shipping packaging also leaves a lot to be desired as mine arrived back from Australia a few months ago with a good deal of damage due to just plain lousy packaging. In fact, I have had shipping damage with Mick's gear several times in the past, including four preamps, two pair of the Merlot monoblock amps, one of them twice. This is in fact, the main reason I stopped importing the line.
As for my own Cortese, I have had reliability and noise problems to the point that I want to replace it for good. My hope is that Dan's preamps will fill this bill and for what its worth, I will write my findings after sufficient break in and auditioning.
Dan's equipment is professionally designed, built and packaged for shipping and he is a class act. I am looking forward to putting it in the system and letting it rip.
