In Reply to: RE: But, other people have said... posted by FSonicSmith on June 14, 2015 at 07:50:32:
I owned Simaudio's P-5LE, which was at one time their top of the line, cost no object preamp featuring an outboard power supply with 8 stages of DC voltage reguation and a relay switched array of metal film resistors for volume control. It was bettered by the cheaper, single chassis P5.3 that they came out with later to fill a price point below the Evolution series. The P5.3 has only 3 DC regulation stages in the power supply but includes an inductor filter to each component that the PS supplies. It also uses a cheaper electronically switched volume control. I'm not sure what part of the P5.3 is better; power supply, volume control, or other. But they certainly accomplished more with less.
But interestingly, the matching W5.3 is NOT better than the W-5 (at least not the W-5LE that I still have). And I think the main difference between the two is the fully dual mono, stiffer power supplies in the W-5.
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