consensus on passive preamps?

If you've had a passive preamp in your system what was the final verdict?

hbarrel05-19-2002 9:05pm

fly_fish_nz Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 70 posts 05-20-2002 at 06:15am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I recently purchased a Placette passive to compare to my BC21 tube pre and a solid state. I paired the Placette with a Pass Aleph 3, as did Tom above, which does not have particularly high input impedance or sensitivity, and with Dunlavy SM1, which do have resonably high 91 sensitivity. If there was a loss of dynamics with the Placette, it must be subtle because I sure have not noticed it. In fact, while at a Modesky, Martin, Wood concert tonight (great new album by the way), I was thinking how much more striking and better sounding their material was on my system at home. C.
fly_fish_nz Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 70 posts 05-22-2002 at 03:25am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Tim, I like them both, but held off on a more critical audition and decision on which to keep until I received some room treatment from auralex, which I put in today. Sometime in the next week a friend and I will be doing an extended listening to the BC21 versus the Placette, and I will post a note here regarding our thoughts. C.