Melbguy1 Arnie Nudell, and Cary Christie would tell You when U'r spending this kind of money to use U'r own judgement/ ears!!!! They're ears can't after-all, decipher more than Yours. Last I knew they're ears were 180 degrees equi-distant from each other as, I think Yours are!!!! The final arbiters being what You like for U'r musical pallette. Yes, of course useful background info. is necessary such as gain, interfacing,reliability, and customer support, but outside of that you've got to live with the choices you make.
Line Stage battle: ARC LS26 vs Aesthetix Calypso
Dear Members, This is my first post on Audiogon & I would like to thank Audiogon and it's members for a fantastic community of dedicated fans of high end audio. For my first post, I thought I'd pick two exceptional line stage pre-amps costing roughly the same, yet created along very different design philosophies and pose the question - In a no-holds barred cage match between the two, which pre comes out the winner?