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LDR3: Based on input from current and prospective customers, we are retiring the LDR1 effective immediately and replacing it with the LDR3. The LDR3 is our “Goldilocks” passive preamp. Not too few inputs like the LDR1 and not too many like the LDR6. Just right with 3 inputs & 2 outputs. Pricing: We are pleased to be offering the LDR3 at the same price as the LDR1 – $1195. […]
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UPDATE – 9.1.14 The LDR3B is now the LDRxB and was released on September 1st, 2014. More info on the LDRxB can be found here.
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The best part of being in the high value audio design and manufacturing business is working with customers who have more interesting ideas than you do. A recent example is when a full professor at Harvard University contacted us and asked if we could provide a pair of mono passive preamplifiers for his home audio rig. Dual Mono Preamps? Yes, mono preamps. As in a two single channel LDR
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The debate over passive vs. active preamps mushes on within the audio community with the prevailing wisdom being that an active preamp is better than any/all passive preamps. Is this really true? As with so many things in life the answer is….it depends.
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Our First Product Review We are quite pleased to announce that our friends at HiFiPig.com have published their review of our LDR6 Passive Preamplifier. Even better, we’ve been awarded their “Recommended” status. The award is given only to those products that we have reviewed and believe fulfill the following criteria: “A Hi-fi component that we feel offers exceptional performance at (or despite of) its price point”. The folks at
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Our First Customer Reivew One of our recent customers shared his initial impressions of our LDR1 Passive Preamplifier. Here’s an unedited reprint of that review. I’ve had my LDR1 for a week so it’s time to write my initial impressions. Let me state up front that the LDR1 is the most pure, neutral, transparent, noise-free and grain-free component I have ever heard. Because of this, it sounds even better
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The Perfect Preamplifier If you read enough articles on high-end audio you eventually encounter the definition of a perfect preamp: no preamp at all. Just a short wire between the line source and the amplifier. Purity of audio signal maintained unsullied by intervening gear. All fine and good provided you live alone, have few neighbors nearby, and don’t give a fig about going deaf. Let’s move on. An Active
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CAPE CORAL, Florida (October 1, 2012) – Today, Tortuga Audio launched its website/store (www.tortugaaudio.com) highlighting its new LDR6 Passive Preamp. The LDR6 is the first of several high value audio products that Tortuga Audio plans on releasing over the next year geared towards discriminating music lovers interested in high performance 2-channel stereo audio. The LDR6 is designed around the use of audio grade light dependent resistors (LDRs) that are
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Here is the artwork for the front and back panels of the LDR6 Passive Preamplifier.
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