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I give up!

Or maybe not.

I only mentioned MFA because it was the most expensive TVC I could think of and said that compared to some of the active pres mentioned it was cheap.

My original point was that we are comparing chalk and cheese in terms of cost. Any comparison should take into account the cost of the kit. So by all means compare the MFA with other £2-3K preamps but don't compare a Glasshouse, Promethius or Django (for example) with amps costing ten times more (exaggerated to make a point). If after comparing kits in the same ball park, one picks active and another picks passive then good luck to them both.

Regarding tone control, remote control, phone stage etc. none of my amps (SS or Valve) have had them. Not important to me. However, it may be a consideration to others, in which case they should take it into account. BTW there is a remote control version of the Django I believe.

<blockquote data-quote="Dev" data-source="post: 689541" data-attributes="member: 1023">I give up!Or maybe not<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big Grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />.I only mentioned MFA because it was the most expensive TVC I could think of and said that compared to some of the active pres mentioned it was cheap.My original point was that we are comparing chalk and cheese in terms of cost. Any comparison should take into account the cost of the kit. So by all means compare the MFA with other £2-3K preamps but don't compare a Glasshouse, Promethius or Django (for example) with amps costing ten times more (exaggerated to make a point). If after comparing kits in the same ball park, one picks active and another picks passive then good luck to them both.Regarding tone control, remote control, phone stage etc. none of my amps (SS or Valve) have had them. Not important to me. However, it may be a consideration to others, in which case they should take it into account. BTW there is a remote control version of the Django I believe.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dev, post: 689541, member: 1023"] I give up! Or maybe not:D. I only mentioned MFA because it was the most expensive TVC I could think of and said that compared to some of the active pres mentioned it was cheap. My original point was that we are comparing chalk and cheese in terms of cost. Any comparison should take into account the cost of the kit. So by all means compare the MFA with other £2-3K preamps but don't compare a Glasshouse, Promethius or Django (for example) with amps costing ten times more (exaggerated to make a point). If after comparing kits in the same ball park, one picks active and another picks passive then good luck to them both. Regarding tone control, remote control, phone stage etc. none of my amps (SS or Valve) have had them. Not important to me. However, it may be a consideration to others, in which case they should take it into account. BTW there is a remote control version of the Django I believe. [/QUOTE]

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