I am considering the Rogue Zeus tube power amp and heard that the Rogue M99 preamp works well. I heard the 99 preamp in another system back a few years and thoguht that it sounded fine for the money but I would have liked a better sound, kind of bright compared to some other preamps I heard and not as magical in the mid range for a tube preamp as I would prefer. But I have never heard the combination of the Zeus with this preamp.
If you have the Zeus, what preamps did you try and if you have heard the Zeus at a dealer or somewhere, what preamp was the beast mated to?
I have a newly aquired zeus Will be teaming it up with audible illusions M3a. If your not a zeus owner: these amps ship on a factory pallet/box system with a shipping weight of 230 lbs, i thought that box and pallet have to wiegh about 30 lbs. Wrong its light weight so that amp is Over 200lbs pry closer to 210+. And it makes the speakers look small :) What a cool amp.
Hello I use the Zeus through a TacT RCS peamp and am getting super results at the moment. In effect it is actually outputting a digital signal from the bnc connector into the RCS and then receiving it back - processing the signal through its STARS DAC. Good results to date but need to keep playing with the room correction system a bit more.
The Magnum version of the 99 should be noticably better than the "stock" version. I haven't heard them, but have read about them, and the Magnum versions (of the amp and preamp) are always liked much more.
I think HiFi+, excellent British mag, did a nice review of the Magnum separates a while back.
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