whats the most clean and transparent sounding pre in world ?

[Gabriel Sousa]

hello ppl,

whats the most clean and transparent sounding pre in world ?

what make and model ?
its tube or transistor ?

thanks a lot

[acidrock]

The human ear.

This question is only slightly easier to answer than "What is the meaning of life?".

[Rodger Hartlett]

a piece of straight wire
which is then hooked up to an amplifier to make up for the lost gain.

no really. FET based circuits seem to be amongst the really transparent. they would be transformerless and have a high input impedance.
the human ear is not transparent. it compresses loud signals automatically. the mind can provide some tastey eq .

[acidrock]

Originally Posted by Rodger Hartlett

. it compresses loud signals automatically. the mind can provide some tastey eq .

If that's the case than any responses or opinions would be moot.

[BigRay]

DAV BG-1 , forselltech fetcode, gml 8302, millennia HV-3C

[Big Kenny]

Originally Posted by acidrock

If that's the case than any responses or opinions would be moot.

I was gonna say that but I thought it sounded too Rick Springfield

[Gabriel Sousa]

can you tell me some channel strips ?

[SonicAlbert]

Channel strips are going to be less clean and transparent by the nature of what they do. A channel strip will typically have compression and eq, as well as the amplifier. So already the goals of the equipment have changed somewhat from "straight wire with gain".

[XLR]

I've used the Great River MP2H a lot and it's very transparent.

Tim

[giraffe]

earthworks ZDT?

[Gabriel Sousa]

and about tubetech ?

[c7sus]

Earthworks, Davisound.