[paul79]

No way!

[tortugaranger]

No way!

Way!


Here's the picture. We are a small design/manufacturer with more ideas and interests than we have resources to pursue. For the past 2 years we've been running down parallel tracks with both tube and solid state buffered preamp variants thinking why not both since they both have merit albeit with their own sound characteristics. As both have continued to evolve it's become more and more apparent that the tube based design has become the more compelling preamp. With everything else we have going on it has become clear that we could only pursue and fully support one active preamp so we decided that the tube preamp would move forward and we would stand down with the solid state design. We also retired our battery power supply which was a fine product but not central to our business plan going forward. Such decisions are never easy and we acknowledge that not everyone will be happy about this.

All that notwithstanding, there will be a buffered preamp and there will be a tour and we're busting our butts getting a reasonably presentable commercial prototype built for the tour. There have been significant design changes lately which take time to work through. One recent key decision was to abandon a high end enclosure in favor of a lower cost solution to keep the final price down and offer a more competitive product. Also, many aspects of the work on the solid state preamp are finding their way into the tube design including both a split voltage power supply and the LSK170 JFET discrete buffer circuit.

More on this as it evolves. Will probably start a separate thread on this topic going forward.

[charmerci]

Any updates on this tour?

[djverne]

I would be open to a tour stop. Bought an original LDR years ago second hand and love it. I would be ok with being last on the list

[tortugaranger]

Just a reminder that we put this tour on the back burner after deciding to put the LDR300 solid state buffered preamp on the back burner as well while we finished development and released our LDR3000.V25 Tube Preamp which will take its place on the tour for those still interested. Timing on the tour is entirely dependent on when the new preamp is released which is currently targeted for September.