I use a Conrad Johnson PV-14L which is going to RHB Sounddezign for modifications in August.
Interesting. What are you going to have done to the unit?
I use a Conrad Johnson PV-14L which is going to RHB Sounddezign for modifications in August.
I still use and love my CAT SL 1 Signature which I have rolled tubes into. BTW, if you are a CAT owner, you haven't really heard your preamp until you roll in tubes! With the stock tubes, the CAT is a very good preamp
which competes against most others in todays market IMHO. However, with the stock tubes, there are a few preamps, like the BAT REX among others that out do it. Roll in tubes and if you get it right, this preamp
leaps to another plane; again IMHO, easily competitive with the likes of the REX. Getting back to the subject, many years ago I did an 'AB with the CAT vs. a passive volume control. The results weren't even close,
the passive unit robbed the music of drive and top-end and was barely even listenable.
All this is driving us to an honest question: How reliable are our observations ? How reliable are some of our preferences? How would have we reacted? With knowledge removed? … I hasten to say that I am not talking about DBT here.. Let’s push DBT very far from this discussion.. No! I am suggesting something like this.. Given the Dar Tzeel Integrated in a system and the same system with the separates of course same power and/or level matched if possible? Which one would have we picked? Based on musical pieces we know well? Without knowing which was playing?