Warmth Of The Sound - “WOTS LeGrand”.
Very few words to introduce this thrilling preamp: in the listening room of RS Multimedia in Rottofreno (Italy) it gave us goosebumps for the warm softness and ethereal transparency of its sound.
Someone has judged it to be a piano preamp for the accuracy of the reproduction of this noble instrument; others marveled that for the first time they experienced almost the same feeling of attending a live event.
I was standing with a shiver that kept running down my spine.
In another session there were four hidden preamplifiers in comparison on a not really expensive chain but pretentious just enough. The “WOTS LeGrand” was the undisputed winner for expressed musicality, indeed very characteristic but completely devoid of color.
Different thing is to say `Linearity, “Aikido” is on the podium here. But is linearity more important than musicality?
Someone to answer.
I stop here, the schematic speaks for itself. A handful of components ... not so much a "handful", not the components runnning in your drawer, but high quality goods. There would be a lot to say about a simple topology with unconventional configuration, but I will do only is somebody is interested and asks for it.
It was the year 2003. The pictures are related to mine, 2007 build.
You will excuse me if I don't dwell on it, if I don't tell you the philosophy of the project, the various phases of analysis ... The truth is that “WOTS LeGrand” was born as a joke! Just a couple of concepts put together.
The success of this joke was great among my audiophile friends and friends of friends. One of them, dear Franco, who now listens from up there, forced me to design a solid-state version because he didn't like working with tubes. But he asked me that its sound must have been the same. Thus was born the “WOTS Tre”, which we developed together during one whole day to find the polarization with the best sound, the same imprinting of “LeGrand”.
The delay you see in the schematic is mandatory, it shorts the output for a pre-configured time to let the eqipment settle stably.
Simple schematic, impressive sound. You have to try. Oh boy, you have to!
Very few words to introduce this thrilling preamp: in the listening room of RS Multimedia in Rottofreno (Italy) it gave us goosebumps for the warm softness and ethereal transparency of its sound.
Someone has judged it to be a piano preamp for the accuracy of the reproduction of this noble instrument; others marveled that for the first time they experienced almost the same feeling of attending a live event.
I was standing with a shiver that kept running down my spine.
In another session there were four hidden preamplifiers in comparison on a not really expensive chain but pretentious just enough. The “WOTS LeGrand” was the undisputed winner for expressed musicality, indeed very characteristic but completely devoid of color.
Different thing is to say `Linearity, “Aikido” is on the podium here. But is linearity more important than musicality?
Someone to answer.
I stop here, the schematic speaks for itself. A handful of components ... not so much a "handful", not the components runnning in your drawer, but high quality goods. There would be a lot to say about a simple topology with unconventional configuration, but I will do only is somebody is interested and asks for it.
It was the year 2003. The pictures are related to mine, 2007 build.
You will excuse me if I don't dwell on it, if I don't tell you the philosophy of the project, the various phases of analysis ... The truth is that “WOTS LeGrand” was born as a joke! Just a couple of concepts put together.
The success of this joke was great among my audiophile friends and friends of friends. One of them, dear Franco, who now listens from up there, forced me to design a solid-state version because he didn't like working with tubes. But he asked me that its sound must have been the same. Thus was born the “WOTS Tre”, which we developed together during one whole day to find the polarization with the best sound, the same imprinting of “LeGrand”.
The delay you see in the schematic is mandatory, it shorts the output for a pre-configured time to let the eqipment settle stably.
Simple schematic, impressive sound. You have to try. Oh boy, you have to!
