On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:58:31 -0500, "Powell"
wrote:

I recently enjoyed a casual comparison of four truly excellent preamps
(Gordon Model 3, Grace Lunatec V. 3, Great River MP2-MH and Millennia
Media HV-3D), all with admirable linearity to 100 KHz or well beyond,
all with admirable phase coherence and extremely low noise floors
bumping theoretical minimum, and they all sounded different.

"extremely low noise floors bumping theoretical minimum"... not
likely.


Yes, near the theoretical minimum. It's not wildly difficult to
achieve. In fact, "excellent specfications" in general are pretty
common any more. But virtually all micamps, like different
microphones, sound different. "Specs" and "sound" often do not
correlate.

Bottom line -- rent, borrow, demo, do whatever it takes to get a bunch
of candidate micamps into your room, with your mics, on your program,
and make your own analysis.

JL