The Sonic Frontiers
LINE 1
LINESTAGE
represents a new benchmark in
high-end preamplifier design. Whether it is the advanced circuit topology
including 15 stages of power supply regulation, hall-of-fame parts quality,
meticulous craftsmanship, comprehensive features, intuitive and convenient
ergonomics or, most of all, its impeccably lifelike and neutral sonic character,
the LINE-1 has no peers.
Specifically, in the area of sonics, the Line-1 has achieved an unprecedented
degree of tonal neutrality, harmonic correctness, lifelike dynamics, uncolored
frequency extremes and above all else, exhilarating musicality.
Rarely has there been an audio component which strives, in all
facets of its design, to break new ground, to be revolutionary rather
than evolutionary. The
LINE 3
LINESTAGE
is just such a
product. No other preamplifier takes each design parameter to its limit
l i ke the LINE 3.
The Sonic Frontiers
LINE 2
L I N E S TA G E
builds on the technical
s h o u l d e r’s of its smaller sibling, the Line 1, in the following ways:
• superior quality passive part s
• outboard power supply (power transformer, rectification, power
supply reservoir and pre-regulation)
• four additional stages of power supply regulation (19 versus 15)
• an optimized layout of the audio circuit in the MAIN chassis,
taking advantage of the full chassis size for maximum perf o r-
mance from this circuit.
“The LINE 3 has joined that select group of products that I can confidently
recommend to friends and family. Superbly engineered and superbly e xecuted,
the LINE 3 extends the Sonic Frontiers tradition of exceptional value. Bravo!”
Dick Olsher, October 1997
“The Line 3 takes a serious shot at state of the art.”
“ Parts and construction quality are first-rate in this beautifully made component.”
“If you get the idea that I like the Sonic Frontiers Line 3, you’re right. It is one
of the best preamps I’ve had the pleasure of using in my system, and it’s
becoming my current reference preamplifier.”
Bascom H. King, September 1997
“The Line 2 is one of the most well designed preamps I have encountered to
date ...[this] is a really hot preamp.”
“The LINE 2 gives you first class audio performance without compromising
features. Other manufacturers should take note.”
Jerry Del Colliano, August 1997
“I couldn’t find any shortcomings in the Line 2! ...the Line 2 delivered everything
I asked of it.”
“ I t’s one of the most neutral-sounding components I’ve ever used.”
Kalman Rubinson, December 1997
“Its sound is really hard to fault. It adds little enough colouration and distortion to signals
passing through it that hearing and separating its characteristic sound from the sounds of
the rest of the system is very difficult. This is what a good preamp needs to accomplish to
do credit to the connected source equipment, and this Line-1 can do. Recommended.”
Muse Kastanovich, November 1997
Vol. 20 No. 11
