Whats the ultimate goal with your pre amp ?


I have a great pre amp its a Pass labs XP-22. Its a great compliment to the rest of my gear-Pass 250.8-Pass XP-17 phono pre-VPI Prime Signature TT-Auralic Aries 2.1 Streamer- PS Audio Directstream MK2--Harbeth 40.2 Anniversaries.

My question is- At what point is a pre amp overkill ? Example- In terms of performance- How close does a Parasound JC-2 get to a Pass XP-22 ?

In my mind I want the Pre to be uncolored..silent...and have flexibility/with XLR's in and out. Does or should it cost 10K to achieve this ?

The point of this post is to gather opinions on what other audiophile thoughts are .

Thanks in advance for any and all opinions.

krelldog

Showing 2 responses by arcticdeth

Roger Sanders “The Preamp” is the most,colorless preamp I’ve ever used, it is the proverbial straightwire with gain I’ve ever purchased. Past 35+ years I’ve been through a lot of preamps, amps, cd spinners, EQ’s, tape decks, tuners, receivers’ etc etc

plus, it’s small, is unassuming, has amazing features, and has 20K of,capacitance

the remote alone is a mini computer. Has XLR and RCA’s.
not sure if totally balanced, the best preamp I’ve ever had.
she is a keeper. Completely colorless of every recording, good in good out, bad in bad out

 

30 day in home trial…..after the 4th week, I called Roger & asked for anther 2 weeks with the preamp, as I felt she was not broken in yet,….before the 6th week was up I called Roger with my credit card info.
I still swap in my Onkyo P-308 listening to Bathory’s first three releases, demo’s, live shows .

 

I love talking to Roger, he will answer every question, and loves to chat and talk audio, capacitors, cables, electrostatic speakers, and talk about his Magtech stereo amp, which I’m saving for a bit at a time, I’m almost there another year and I’ll be ready to buy one of the most reliable and power / current dumping amps.

Now that I’m writing all this, I’m realizing how close I am to finally owning the Magtech amp! I’m H A P P Y, …IM H A P P Y…..

http://sanderssoundsystems.com

a ton of info here, take an hour and read the white papers, reviews,, Roger is a good man, call him and shoot the breeze ne evening!

 

http://sanderssoundsystems.com

Don’t listen to some of these snobby itchbays. 
 

prices of individual components don’t mean ickday!

 

oh no,a 2K speaker pair driven by a 10K monoblocks, it’s too good for the speakers?  Who thinks of hitsay?

 Prices don’t,matter n audio, if the music sounds good, then it sounds good.

regardless I f the cost of gear. 
 

have the highest level of kismet by odyssey upgrades, driving a pair of mid 90’s BIC venturi V830 towers. Sanders preamp, and 2 low cost spinners, Rotel rdv 1040,,a sherwood 5:cd carousel, pioneer elite dv79avi does get called up from time to time. 
 

 

Years ago, I had altec Lansing 510 towers powered by 2 Carvin dcm 2500 pro guitar amps in mono, feeding 2500W rms to each speaker,…the headroom and open airy sound was huge and wide, Acurus acd-11 spinner,  b and k pro10-mc preamp, older Parasound tuner.

sounded great to me. Don’t be so quick to put peoples equipment down, or the owners. Not cool.