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RE: Hybrid Preamps -- With Respect, I Disagree . . .

Posted by goldenthal on March 4, 2017 at 16:28:18:
I have heard no ss preamp sound as round, 3-d, "natural" as a good tube preamp. I have heard too few hybrids to know if those differences can be reduced to zero, but I suppose that that would depend on where in a circuit the transistors are deployed. Mind, the few hybrids I've heard (back when) did not persuade me. Note, though, that the foregoing is merely my personal sense of my personal experience -- I make no scientific claims.

Jeremy