Passive pre-amp any good???

I cannot say what will match good with an Air Tight,but I had an FT Audio Passive which was one of the finest pieces I had ever owned.

You will notice a greater transparency when going theough your collection. It was as if another layering of info was revealed.

Highly recommended! There are plenty of good manfs. of Passives and I plan on building one to use in a reference system for design work as it's the best way of knowing what is being revealed when changes are made.

Check with Paul Lam of FT Audio and tell him Larry of NEAR SOTA Cables recommeneded you talk to him.

Good luck!
paullam@sk.sympatico.ca

You can also put one together with Ratshack parts to see weather one is for you before investing alot of $$ for one.

A passive preamp will work fine with many systems.
The only problem with some system using a passive preamp is the current drive of the original source component is insufficient to properly drive the amplifier.
The electical signal comes out ot the source component and has a certain complex combination of voltage, impedence, load it wants see, and amperage (small, but meaningful)
The passive preamp really just passes along the signal, just cutting it down with the volume control, to the amplifier.
If the signal isn't able to drive the amplifier properly, the sound is "thin" or shallow.
That is the one sometime flaw with passive preamps.
The active preamp takes care of that problem, at the risk of being more veiled.
The tradeoff is which one do you want to worry about?
(For the electrical engineers: please excuse the bastardized explaination, I try, if you can explain it better, please do!)

Sounds pretty good to me!

Dave