I had the Placette in my system for over a year and found it to be everything it claims to be, transparent with no sound signature of it's own. I was so impressed with it that I went to a Placette Linestage. Guy Hammell of Placette is very knowledgeable, easy to work with and he will give you a 30 day audition period with full price upgrade to a linestage. I believe there is a review on it at www.soundstage.com and The Absolute Sound has reviewed both the remote and the linestage in the past. I have used both the remote and linestage with tube and solidstate amplification with similar results. Good luck.
