Karan Acoustics LINEa preamplifier

It has become a cliché in audio circles to claim ‘there are no good preamplifiers’. Fortunately, there are exceptions to the rule and they are increasing in number. Ten years ago, the number of really good preamps could be counted on the fingers on one hand, and a hand that had a bad fight with a combine harvester at that. Today, they number in the double-figures. The Karan Acoustics KA L Reference was always one of the contenders, but that didn’t prepare us for the LINEa, Karan’s latest and greatest top-of-the-line preamplifier. The LINEa is the first in a new …