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i'm going to try the blue circle in my system. they also make a lower wattage integrated. here's the link to blue circle and brian they do have a remote option.
Someone also brought in a solid state pre-amp that we dropped in at the tail end of this session. It was built into a Legacy Audio chassis. I forget the name of the guy that brought it and the name of the gentleman that built it, but it was really nice sounding. This is the best sounding solid state pre-amp that I have heard in a long time. It was a close comparison in some ways to the Dodd pre-amp that we were using and I rarely hear anything that can hold its own against that pre-amp. The Dodd still had a more airy and more detailed top end to it but in many other areas it was really close. I wonder if it was using any DC coupling caps in the output and if so what they were?
If it was "close," then why did Danny ask Gary Dodd how long it takes for his Pre Amp to warm up when the Dodd was reinserted into the system after only having Mr. Alexander's pre amp in the system for 10 minutes?
During this evaluation and listening session, I was then told that I was not in the sweet spot for the speakers. This is funny to me since the speaker designer himself mentions a "wide sweet spot" on his web site. And, since I remained in the same spot for both pre amps, I was comparing apples to apples and I know what I heard. Throwing untrue terms about is what drives people away from this hobby.
Throwing untrue terms about is what drives people away from this hobby.
I think you're reading about subjective listener preferences and nuance here, and there's never any way to reconcile that, which by extension means neither can be wrong, IMO.