Jaton Corp. Operetta RC2000P

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This a great remote controlled preamp, it's very transparent and very quiet. It has a 12v remote trigger jack to control an amp. It also has biamp output jacks and a pair of xlr input and main output jacks.

The Operetta has clean, simple fit and finish. It is just another black box, with a shining blue read-out panel and sapphire eye. The tonality of the Jaton pre-amplifier was very good, balanced and not noticeably striking or lacking. The only solid-state, and the least expensive, unit in the shoot-out, the Operetta provided details and felt solid. It has no colorations or bloom of the tube units. It had no noticeable anomalies. Though these features make tube amplifiers less accurate, it also makes solid-state ones less engaging. Reviewers had a hard time describing the sound of the Jaton pre-amplifier. The word is neutral. The Jaton is a Swiss amplifier of neutrality.

“Compared to the tube pre-amplifiers in this brief shoot-out, the Operetta not only did not embarrass itself; it held its own. Nobody said anything seriously critical of it. Read that line again! Don't make light of it. Sometimes that is all that some tweaking audiophiles are looking for: a unit that gets out of the way of the music. Everybody was very impressed with its performance. I double and tripled checked the price on several occasions. Many listeners thought it was a very good value for the money. If you do not want your pre-amplifier to contribute to your stereo's sound, this is a unit to consider. The stand-by knob on the front panel acts like a quick power switch; one touch and the warmed-up unit is ready to rock.”