Good deal for an Avalon?

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:47 am

AudioGaff wrote:

Your resarch skills are lacking. The Great River GR-NV is not a Neve clone. And Great River makes another preamp other than the GR-NV that would compliment the GR-NV very well.

I stand corrected.

Piss...now I have another attribute lacking. I hope my wife doesn't find out.
Wink

What other GR preamp are you referring to if I may ask? The only others that I see on their site is the 2 channel version of what I have and the 500 rack version. They all look like the same offering for the most part.

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:19 am

AudioGaff may be right that the GR-NV is not a Neve "clone" since they don't use exactly the same circuit or components, but when a company's stated design goal is to sound like a "1970's era 1073 preamp" and it uses a class A circuit with iron core input and output transformers...well, I wouldn't insist on a paternity test.

Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 11:17 am

Yes Bob; and those are the points from GRs documentation that gave me the impression of being a clone. However, in re-thinking and realizing what a clone truly is, I can see that they're not. Though they do appear to want to give the user the option of 'getting there' in a round about way. At least that is my impression.

Maybe the best way to go about this is to commit "x" amount of dollars to my local Pro Audio store and just take a few things home and try them out. Of course that makes it a little less desirable in that new gear usually costs more and, well, most of us like bargains.

Price one has to pay I suppose. Risk too.

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 1:41 am

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Maybe the best way to go about this is to commit "x" amount of dollars to my local Pro Audio store and just take a few things home and try them out

Now your thinking like a professional...

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