Benchmark LA4 Stereo Line Preamplifier The Music Room

Benchmark La4. Benchmark LA4 black, like new with remote For Sale US Audio Mart Every change I made to my system—whether equipment or musical selections—could be heard The LA4 was designed from the ground up as an ultra-low-noise, ultra-low-distortion mate for the AHB2 power amplifier, which my brother Hans reviewed on SoundStage! Access in June 2015.

LA4 makes a perfect complement to the Benchmark AHB2 Horses for courses, of course, but given the LA4's affordable price, if you think you can handle the truth (thanks Jack Nicholson!) you must give it a listen

Benchmark LA4 Stereo Line Preamplifier The Music Room

The award-winning Benchmark LA4 may be the most transparent line-level preamplifier available at any price In contrast, other preamplifiers limit the system noise performance because they cannot match the SNR performance of AHB2. I will say that I do find my First Watt SIT 3 to be quite sensitive to speaker load with it preferring higher impedance speakers

Benchmark LA4 Stereo Line Preamplifier The Music Room. It may be the only preamplifier or line amplifier that exceeds the signal to noise ratio of the ultra-quiet AHB2 Benchmark prefers to call the LA4 a line amplifier (which may be the more correct term because that is what preamplifiers in fact do: amplify the signal) and offers it in two versions: linestage only, retailing for $2499, and the identical linestage with an onboard headphone amplifier, called the HPA4, retailing for $2999 (glowingly reviewed in.

Benchmark LA4 preamp like new For Sale Aussie Audio Mart. The Benchmark LA4 uses a bank of precision resistors switched by gold-contact relays to set volume in 256 steps of 0.5 decibels each." "If accurate reproduction is your wish, you won't find a preamp with meaningfully better objective performance than the Benchmark LA4, especially one made in the United States at anything near the LA4's. The Benchmark LA4 Line Amplifier is a solid, high-quality audio component