After allowing the manufacture's recommended warm up time of 48 hours, I found this pre-amp to offer a rematkable lack of artificial electronic artefacts such as grain.
It provides a neutral sound across the spectrum thus allowing differences between different records ( CD or LP )to be clearly audible. A factor of this neutrality is a sense of correct timbre.

Soundstaging is marginally narrower than some pre-amps, but deep and providing clearly defined, correctly scaled images.


Most of all , it provides immense musical involvment with astonishing dynamics and an impression that rhythmic expression is not impeded. Couple this to superlative build quality and it has to be recommended.

Any downside? Well, I could do with two and not one balanced input. However this does not reduce my opinion by 20percent, so 5 stars.



Associated equipment: Marantz CD-7. Michel Orbe/SME V/Lyra Clavis. Plinius M14 Phonostage, ATC SCM50ASL active speakers. All cabling Kimber Select.