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RE: Should I replace my passive preamp with tubes?

Posted by ghost4man on March 23, 2017 at 22:17:50:
All this talk about using a pre which is a valve sounding much better when used in conjunction with maggies is not something that I really subscribe to.

My feeling has always been that a a pre, regardless of the electronic architecture should be as neutral as possible.

I was speaking to a colleague the other day who spent 10k for a valve pre - Audio Research Reference - because he liked the warmer valve sound.

I remarked to him that he preferred the sound to be coloured. He agreed.

So he sold his Lightspeed LDR passive pre, which is about as neutral a pre as you will get because it was in his eyes a bit too raw for him. Speak to other people and the LDR gives an amazing combo with maggies.