Belleson

I am totally enjoying your [Radiance] phono amp. With the gain settings of [Radiance], I have been able to take my preamp out of the loop and going right from [Radiance] to a passive attenuator... The sound, the clarity, the transparency is really all fantastic. The solid state piece you have there is an amazing piece of equipment.

...the Belleson Brilliance sounded very smooth without sacrificing detail. Smooth, and quiet. Super quiet...I noticed this quiet in relation to other phono preamplifiers in the house–so it stood out...The Brilliance has a way of rendering the music into spaces and shapes that we hear in the real world, thanks to an uncommon talent for capturing those subliminal cues which define the differences between live performances and mere reproduction.

If you like high quality parts for the Whammy try out Belleson SPX voltage regulators. I've been using the 24 Volt version with the Sonic Imagery Labs dual discrete so I have lots of headroom to drive most anything as a preamp. Belleson has an real interesting web site which shows direct comparisons with all kinds of other voltage regulators including the Jung Super regulator, Shunt types and many others. It is impressive. He sells direct but you may find a better price at Parts Connexion if they are in stock.

What stood out above all else—and this was obvious on known and unknown recordings, was the Brilliance's suppleness, the roundness and textural generosity of acoustic instruments. The presentation one expects and gets from tube phono preamps, but here it's combined with no additives and greater delicacy and against a quieter backdrop—more like the circa $80,000 HSE Masterline 7 I reviewed for TAS and Jacob Heilbrunn reviewed here.

Finally got the cd player modded with the superpowers! I am speechless. Really jaw dropping improvement. It's like a thick veil lifted with extended frequencies top and bottom. Music now becomes a lot more intense and emotional and I simply can't stop spinning disc after disc. The extra details that I hear are staggerring!...Once again thanks for all the support you have given and also for coming out with such great product. I am thoroughly impressed! Pictures to come later . Too occupied with music. :-)

Because it imposes so little of its own character on music, it allowed the character of each cartridge to shine through...If you are serious about playing records, and desire control over the parameters that mate a cartridge to a preamp just so, I recommend you check out the Belleson Brilliance. Brian Lowe has designed a modern, wireless-connected device that gives just about any cartridge a chance to sound great. Its mission seems in service of the cartridge: enable its best sound and then give it life through clean gain and accurate RIAA de-emphasis. That is no small task, and it was a pleasure to hear it done so well with such a wide variety of cartridges.

Yet again the SPL17 sounds great! This one went into a phono pre-amp. Once again I thank you for the marvelous support. This is the 4th audio component that I've installed your regulators in and every one of them sounds great!

I am a happy customer just wanting to make a compliments to your latest superpower regulator. I replace the [competitor] regulator with your reg which is powering the DAC section. For the first note from my sacd player, I can hear mark improvement in terms of low level information retrieval, the coherance of the music, the stability of the sound stage, and what's more important is music flows naturally with vast dynamics. The last one is an utmost achievement that any audiophile strive to achieve because most of the time we get music flow but sacrifices a little bit of dynamic or vice versa. This time the superpower hit two birds with one stone...This is truly an amazing experience for me.

First off thanks for developing the Superpower regs, so far I have implemented the +5V and +12V versions in my CMP transport and DIY-DAC (Analog AD1852) as digital supplies. Sound improvement is stunning – in audiophile terms the bass impact, sound stage, reverb tails are the qualities that have improved the most. You get the feeling that your ear is so close to the mastertape rolling by the tape heads, it gets spooky! ;)

I also want to order another +/- pair at 17v for an old Soundcraft mixer I restored years ago. (Basically, now I am going thru things and replacing anything where I put in a Super TeddyReg, because the SPXs are so much better.) They really are astounding how much better they sound, over the standard LM devices and the STRs...I think the STRs [...] zaps life from the music, relative to the SPXs...Really amazing work, I am loving them!!!