CH Precision • L10 Preamplifier and M10 Power Amplifier $104,000 Review

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The spectral balance — the perceived evenness of tone from top to bottom — of these electronics is as ideal as I’ve heard, neutrality and transparency as absolutes. Again, I’ve cited Lamm products as exemplars here, but there is no doubt that they sound somewhat darker than the CH Precision L10 and M10. But the CH Precision take on neutrality is not the lean, gray, antiseptic kind of other so-called neutral electronics. The L10 and M10 are supremely balanced, never tipping one way or the other in pursuit of their neutrality. I’ve written in the past about the information gleaned from listening to different versions of the same recording. The equipment will or will not reveal the differences in the mastering and source materials, and they will make the recordings sound more alike or more different. The L10 and M10 were the very best at this that I’ve encountered, while never turning the music into an over-analyzed mess. And with the best versions of a particular recording, like the MasterSound SBM gold CD of Kind of Blue [Columbia Legacy CK 52861], it was easy to become involved in the music and forget about analysis. Again, the L10 and M10 come by this deep insight honestly, through purist means, and it has purely musical ends.