The Absolute Sound had an interesting article this month about the 12 most significant preamps of all time.
I don't want to plagiarize their article so if you want to see their results, please purchase their magazine and keep them in business.
I agreed with some of their results but not all. It would be interesting to hear what all of you feel about this topic
In my opinion, the 12 most significant preamps that affected me are the following:
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12. AGI 511 solid state preamplifier 1978
Audio General's AGI 511 is a no frill preamp with input selection and volume control with modest cosmetics.
However under the hood, this baby can do 250V/uS slew rate topping the JC2 and everything before it in speed.
THD and IM distortion was under 0.005%.
If you can get past the no frill look of this preamp, you should audition one. It's quite a trip
Hello to Everyone,
i am sorry to resurrect this little old but extremely excellent thread to ask about the sound of this preamp in particular. And again sorry for i know that this is an old and neverended debate on how the sound quality correlates with measurements.
But this makes a lot of sense to me. For instance it could be that what is beautiful is not realistic, i.e. not true to the original signal.
To conclude i am extremely interested to know about cases, like the AGI 511, when great measurements correlate with really great sound.
Thanks a lot.
Regards, gino