I recently purchased a Placette Passive and a Blue Circle BC21 to compare a passive and tube pre with the SS I had been using. While, I am not really in a position to compare it to the best of the active pre's (one of which is certainly Placette's active), but so far I am very impressed with the Placette, its dynamics, detail, timber, and transients. I have compared it to feeding my DAC directly to my amp on some passages I know very well, and it is closer to this direct link than the SS pre's I was using. Quite close in fact, despite my earlier concerns that my amp's 23K input impedance might not be the perfect match with a passive.
I also considered EVS's ultimate attenuators because I liked the idea of dropping a set of IC's, but in the end I bought the Placette after reading that they use Vishays throughout, including the ground which they feel is a significant improvement over not doing so. It is hard to know which is more important without listening to each in the same system. Something to consider.
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I also considered EVS's ultimate attenuators because I liked the idea of dropping a set of IC's, but in the end I bought the Placette after reading that they use Vishays throughout, including the ground which they feel is a significant improvement over not doing so. It is hard to know which is more important without listening to each in the same system. Something to consider.
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