Amp/Preamp Asylum

Looking for a new Amp or Preamp? If you're after tubes, post over here.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

RE: Dare I start a new thread on Denefrips Preamps?

Posted by AbeCollins on June 4, 2022 at 14:48:47:
Looks like it has an excellent all-important stepped attenuator volume control [not a cheap chip based control] and what appears to be very good build quality. I wouldn't mind trying one myself but I'm enjoying my Benchmark LA4.
I saw a review on 6Moons that inmate Feanor posted and it looks like the Denafrips Athena compares favorably against the highly regarded Wyred 4 Sound STP SE II, but the Denafrips doesn't look like it was built in a garage. Sorry Wyred 4 Sound. You make outstanding gear but you can do better on the case work with some of your products.
I forgot which inmate here in the Asylum had the W4S preamp and upgraded to the Benchmark LA4 which he prefers.
My ONLY reservation with Denafrips would be service even though I owned one of their products. My limit with over seas purchases is right around a thousand bucks. Any more and I get nervous but that's just my personal comfort zone. If something breaks I wouldn't be happy about shipping expensive broken product several thousand miles away over seas and dealing with customs issues, insurance if lost or damaged, and other potential delays.
The Vinshine website claims to have a US service partner but there's no weblink to that partner, and a Google search shows ambiguous results. I can't find that service partner.
Utilitarian W4S Preamp on top of Attractive Denafrips