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Rowland preamps??????

Anyone have a lot of experience w Rowland preamps?

I'm looking for a high quality fully balanced pre to run into my Vt-100mkII, and I need to stay well under $2500.00.

Rowland makes an awful lot of products w similar names...Continuum, Consonance, Concerto pre...and Concerto integrated. It's hard to keep them all straight. Poor marketing, if you ask me.

Anyway, it seems like the Concerto, Consonance, Capri and SynergyII are all in the $2000-$2500 price range. There's also a SynergyIIi, which sould be a little stretch for me, but it's a 230v unit.

Anyone familiar with these pres, at all. Thanks in advance.
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I listened to most of them, but they are different from the sound.
Personally my choice is the old Consummate, a very musical and detailed unit.
The later ( from Synergy ...) ones I think, the RowlandPre's lost the magic they had. More or less the same with ML, Krell etc.
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