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.
Location: luton, uk.
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I'm geoffrey.
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.
Location: scotland
Posts: 330
I'm alan.
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.
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I'm alan.
IMHO there's nowt better than this.......
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Location: luton, uk.
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I'm geoffrey.
Around the £400, but less would be better.
Location: London
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I'm Richard.
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.
Location: scotland
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I'm alan.