What makes the Allegri Reference truly exceptional is its ability to disappear from the listening experience
Colloms describes the Allegri Reference as a “virtually indistinguishable” link between input and output, offering a level of transparency that makes it a “clear window into the sound stage.
“world-class transparency and unerring detail.”
The autoformer-based passive preamplifier is one of many audio products pouring out of Townshend Audio. The Allegri has a striking ability to get out of the way of the music.
“I never tired of this preamp’s ‘revelatory’ quality; everything you play somehow sounds different to before… [it] gives preamplifiers at any price and of any type, an almost impossibly hard time in terms of sound.”
It has no sound of its own. I heard no real or imaginary effect of the Allegri+ on the output.
“With lab results at, or very close to, the state of the art..” Martin Colloms, Editor of HiFiCritic Magazine auditions the new Townshend Allegri Reference Preamplifier. [ Full Review ]
I never tired of this preamp’s ‘revelatory’ quality; everything you play somehow sounds different to before…
