Perreaux Preamps

CJ get the best one you can afford Perreaux is not to great. Enjoy!

That's funny Efron, I mean the "blow it away" part. Sorry to hear about your bad experience with CJ. BTW I have a Perreaux 2150B amp in my garage that requires some repairs I'm not too motivated to do. It is an OK amp but an older design. I would much rather have one of the Class A SA designs from Threshold given a choice.

Actually the best way to say it is " Get the best Perreaux you can afford, as the Conrad Johnson is not too great to enjoy."
I just compared my Perreaux 350 to my friends CJ stereo power amp and to the both of us the Perreaux sounded much better in all areas of sonic importance. You can brag all you want, but at the end of the day, it’s the Perreaux that wins, and I should know, I did the comparison less than a week ago.

I'm sorry tubegroover, but yes, the blow it away part holds true.At least to me it does. I have owned the supper heavy weight Classe CA-400 at 120 lbs, Class A is the first 80 watts, and while the CA-400 is, was a great amp and still is, I decided to scale it down a little. My decision to buy a brand new Perreaux was after hearing it several times and borrowing it twice over the past 16 months.  I was getting tired of all the heat the Classe was producing and it's weight was bothersome every time I wanted to move it. I also own the Classe CA-301 and this amp is Class A the first 60 watts at 106 lbs.
            I won't go into all the amps I've compared my 350 against so as not to hurt anybody's feelings because you can see I've already hurt a CJ fan.  However, this Prisma at 66 lbs is a lot more manageable and gives me the first 10 watts of Class A  which is fine by me, but it's the sound that wins. I own it, therefore I feel I can comment on it, and 14 months of hard research got me to purchase this Perreaux, and I stand by my purchase. Until anybody can actually hear a recent model of the Prisma 350 you really  don't know what you are missing. It's really not a good idea to bring an older model into the picture.  The best thing I can say here is get yourself to hear a recent model of the Perreaux Prisma 350 and be amazed. This is what happened to me in my search and my 350 is currently on and cooking. It sounds wonderful and I'm very happy with it. I have no regrets, and would buy this amp again in a heart beat.
  Wishing everyone all the best.

Exron  you certainly didn't hurt my feelings as i've never owned a CJ amp.  I have however listened to MANY of their designs in MANY different systems over the years and while I certainly accept your experiences with both and have a clear preference the part about "blowing away" without context  just couldn't escape my comment, hope I didn't offend you either. I will certainly try to hear one if the opportunity ever affords it, happy listening!