Audible Illusions vs CJ preamps: sonic difference?

Night and Day difference... The CJ is like driving in the rain at night, where as the Audible Illusions is like a driving a convertible on a sunny day.

I owned the CJ Premier 14 for severial years and replaced it with the modulus 3. When I upgraded to the 3A I was able to comparing it directly to the CJ 17 LS, and for my taste the AI won hands down.

IMHO the CJ's while very nice, tend to have a very dark tube sound, where as the AI is more honest to the source. The CJ also sounds contested in my opinion. FWIW, I'm the happy owner of the new AI 3B which feeds a nice set of EL34 amps....

Good luck.
Tony

@Mechans

Thank you for your excellent description of "dark". Being an old guy I was too lazy to provide a thoughtful discription. And you made me chuckle... I'm still using 30+ year old mono amps with NOS Mullard el34 (xf2's).

Tony