Rowland preamps??????


Anyone have a lot of experience w Rowland preamps?

I'm looking for a high quality fully balanced pre to run into my Vt-100mkII, and I need to stay well under $2500.00.

Rowland makes an awful lot of products w similar names...Continuum, Consonance, Concerto pre...and Concerto integrated. It's hard to keep them all straight. Poor marketing, if you ask me.

Anyway, it seems like the Concerto, Consonance, Capri and SynergyII are all in the $2000-$2500 price range. There's also a SynergyIIi, which sould be a little stretch for me, but it's a 230v unit.

Anyone familiar with these pres, at all. Thanks in advance.
trank

Showing 2 responses by ferrari

My favorite in the Rowland line up is the Coherence One preamp. Very difficult to find today, and wish I had never sold the one I had. Reference caliber preamp with few peers.
Between the Coherence One and later Coherence Two I do not have information on a head to head comparison. I can though totaly recommend the Coherence One. Find it and buy it, if I don't get to it first.