Well, as most audiophiles I don't actually get transported to the performance when playing music. No matter how good our systems are the illusion they create is pretty far from that. That also means there are a potential for improvement. So if a better preamplifier can get me closer to that illusion, I see no reason not to upgrade.
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The Connoisseur preamplifier is more of a collectors item than a true referance of today even though it sounds very good.
Does anyone have any opinions about this?
I've no idea but you might ask Roy Gregory as it appears from this article that he has a Lyra Connoisseur preamp in his ensemble...
http://www.theaudiobeat.com/blog/roys_room.htm
Can be a fruitless and exasperating task looking for anything that might be universally acknowledged as "one of the best" in this pastime, as it all comes down to one's own taste.![]()
I had the Lyra Connoisseur phono stage in my system when it was a prototype. Petr Mares had built it, and Alan Perkins sent it to me to audition. Hand-wired with solid silver wire, it was a beautiful triumph of audio design. The sound was the finest I ever heard from LPs in my system, besting the Krell KPA phono stage by a good margin. The sound was unbelievably pure and there was an extra degree of clarity that was remarkable. It was simply too expensive for me at the time, or I never would have let it go back.
Lee
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