Bottlehead
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hifitubes,
I did read that the Tortuga pre that I'm looking at is fully balanced, but I don't know what that means exactly. I think different manufacturers mean different things when they say a component is balanced. When Steve says balanced, he means it is coupled to the Jensen transformer, but I don't think that most manufacturers handle it the same way. That's what I need to find out about the Tortuga.
I understand your hesitation to add anything to the LDR-based attenuation. I'm pretty high on it after I bought a Lightspeed Attenuator a few months back, just as an experiment. I paid $280 for it, so I figured I couldn't go too far wrong. I replaced a $2500 preamp with it, and when I plugged it into my system, what I heard was...nothing. No coloration whatsoever. I felt like I was closer to the music. I don't know what better attribute a preamp could have than to disappear. That's why I'm considering stepping up to the Tortuga (also because I'm lazy, and want the remote control). I guess in an ideal world, all of our amps would have balanced inputs, no?
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