Serious Passive Preamp question

ozzy62
  If your system is passive friendly, an active preamp is only going to color the sound further.  Now if this coloration is pleasant to you, you are golden. But I am of the mind that you are fixing something upstream that you don't like.

+1 ozzy62
I don’t believe ANY active preamp can better a "properly used" passive for transparency, dynamics, uncoloured sound and extension in both the highs and lows. Unless you need to purposely colour the sound with the coloration's that all active preamps give.

Just read what  rob67  with friends and family said in a 4 way shootout in a very expensive hiend system, when comparing a passive pre to these three active preamps.
 
Audio Reasearch  Ref5se preamp
Pass Labs  X2.5  preamp 
Bryston BP20 preamp

https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1623297

https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1623299

Cheers George    

rocky1313

Even though passives are my game, I don’t believe ANY active preamp can better a "properly used" passive for transparency, dynamics, uncoloured sound and extension in both the highs and lows.

Saying that though your AR LS7 is "worth" far more to sell than any passive is (except for one) worth, regardless of which one.

The one I’m talking about is the $20k D’artZeel NHB-18NS as it also uses the same LED/LDR passive system as the one I make does.

Cheers George