Looking to go the Passive Pre Amp route sometime in the future and the one that's caught my eye is the "Icon Audio" Passive. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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Looking to go the Passive Pre Amp route sometime in the future and the one that's caught my eye is the "Icon Audio" Passive. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Hi Geoffrey
How much are you willing to spend?
Hi Geoff,
Well, to talk plainly, the unit has a Blue Alps potentiometer which has repeatedly been beaten by every Stepped attenuator I have tried.
TKD do a very good value potentiometer which I expect is better thank the alps.
Depends what you want but I'd be wary of spending a lot on a passive with an alps blue in it.
IMHO there's nowt better than this.......
https://i.imgflip.com/339vvf.jpgvia Imgflip Meme Generator
Around the £400, but less would be better.
I have one in a second system, and agree it seems very good indeed. Completely transparent and without any brightness/leanness that you sometimes hear people complaining about with passives. Might just be a synergistic match of course.
I believe it uses a different implementation to most passives but I don't know what the details are.