The Reveille Passive Linestage is designed as a full-featured passive control unit able to accept inputs from 4 sources. This concept, along with the Reveille s component quality, offers the listener a more natural sound capable of greater resolution than most active preamplifiers. The attenuator is available in 10K, 20K and 50Kohm versions.
Input selection is accomplished via high quality silver contact toggle switches.
The chassis is supplied with sorbothane sheets for resonance damping of the top and bottom panels. The majority of sources available today provide enough output voltage to drive most amplifiers well into clipping, therefore the sole purpose of the Reveille Passive Linestage is to provide switching of input signals and to attenuate, or control, the source s signal. It is important to note the best results will be achieved using a passive linestage when it is used in conjunction with sources possessing output circuitry of exceptional quality. Typically with passive linestages the best sonics are achieved with a low value attenuator such as 10Kohms. This value may not be practical with some vacuum tube equipment and may need to be increased to 50K or slightly more.