I recieved my LLC-P today. The black faceplate looks nice with my Krell amp. It is a solid, heavy, nicely built preamp(, at least heavier than I thought). I never have a preamp before but have my Ah! Njoe Tjoeb CD4000 wired directly to the amp and use the CDP for the volume control. However, this setup causes me to lose some details for I can never turn the volume to its max, which is the factory recommended setting. Due to this shortcoming, I headed out for the search of a preamp. After much research, I narrowed down the candidates ranging from FT Audio LW-1 to AVA T7. To make the long story short, I decided to order a brand new LLC-P. Although it is still too early to make any critical judgement , out of box it sounds very good already. Since I am able to crank the CDP output to maximum, during the initial auditing my friend and I were hearing some minute details never heard before on tracks that I use for evaluating the effectiveness of upgrades. This is good! I will give a review once the unit settles down after a week or two (for I have a few other upgrades in the pipeline). However, there is one bothering issue. When I change the volume setting while the CD is playering, I hear some clicking and/or slight statics coming out form the speakers. I hope this will go away after more break-in. Curt, does this suppose to happen?
In short, preliminarily this is a nice sounding preamp. It looks like it is going to be a keeper!
