It's just a pre I like, I'm not passionate about it, just a piece of gear.
Cool. Where can we find this comparison posted?
I like my Dav BG1 a lot. A whole lot. And yet, oddly enough, I fell compelled NOT AT ALL to post samples.
I guess that makes me a douchebag.
Gotta tell ya, though, I wish they had a rackmount version when I bought mine.
You shouldn't need to have someone spoon feed you a preamp comparison.
Listen to the examples that exist and make up your mind. If you know preamps at all, and have some favorites that you already use and are familiar with, you should be able to judge the characteristics of the BG-1.
That's what I did anyway. Big Ray posted some examples of the BG-1, which I listened to and was impressed by. My next step was to order the BG-1, and it did indeed sound exactly as I expected from hearing Big Ray's recordings.
You shouldn't need to have someone spoon feed you a preamp comparison.
Listen to the examples that exist and make up your mind. If you know preamps at all, and have some favorites that you already use and are familiar with, you should be able to judge the characteristics of the BG-1.
That's what I did anyway. Big Ray posted some examples of the BG-1, which I listened to and was impressed by. My next step was to order the BG-1, and it did indeed sound exactly as I expected from hearing Big Ray's recordings.
Besides, you must be aware of the amount of time it would take to set up a session to record all those different preamps. First, who has all of those sitting together in one room? Just getting them together would be a major job right there. To do the whole job from beginning to end is a giant undertaking. Why should anyone do that for someone here on a message board who is just casually interested anyway? It's not realistic.
Listen to the examples that do exist, and determine for yourself whether you like the tone of the BG-1. You really can hear the characteristics of pretty much any piece of gear without having to A/B it against other gear.
I've got it through a very reliable source that this is fact...Jesus himself used a Studio Projects B1 hooked through a DMP3 as his start-up HR rig.
It's what I like to call the Gear Snowball Effect: I recommend Item X because I read that this guy on HR.com recommended it, and he recommended it because two other guys recommended it on Gearslutz, and they recommended it because three others did, and so on and so forth. And then one day someone investigates and finds out that none of us has actually used the piece of gear in question, and that the first guy that recommended it only did so because Harvey Gerst gave it a good review in Mojo Pie. It's a vicious cycle, man!