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Some comments from 'early adopters' of the new TAP-X Pre-amp

The sound is great, very open, transparent and spacious - all that you would want from a passive pre-amp.

I have had the pleasure of listening to my new TVC pre-amp for the last month or so. I use a custom 2A3 tube amplifier with a wright phono stage and my speakers utilize the "all revealing" PM4A full range drivers from Lowther (104 db or something!).

This is, by far the finest piece of audio equipment I have owned. The unit is dead quiet, transparent, intuitive to use, and makes listening to music that much more fun.

The Bent TVC works very well in my system without any compromise in sonics attributable to the highly regarded active preamps that it replaced. The optically encoded volume control (with remote) with relay switching of the autoformer windings is very precise with 1db increments (I really like the numerical channel level readouts that can be set to extinguish after the control has been inactive for a few seconds) - this implementation is very well designed and engineered and beats any of the mechanical volume switches often used with other TVC's.

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