The Absolute Sound har utsett Vitus SL-103 försteg till Preamplifier of the year 2025.

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"Like its fabulous partners, the Class A SM-103 monoblock amplifiers, this (also Class A) solid-state preamplifier from Denmark’s Vitus Audio is a wonder—a superb piece of electronics, capable of making instruments and vocalists sound more beautiful and realistic and expressive, more fully present and nearly visible, more “there” on live recordings and “in-the-studio” on concocted ones than anything else JV has yet had in his system. Here is a preamp that bridges the gaps between absolute-sound, musicality-first, and fidelity-to-source presentations in ways that only preamps from Soulution, JMF, and MBL have done in the past—and slightly exceeds that distinguished trio in the more complete and continuous way it reproduces the harmonic/dynamic envelope, making something like Duke Ellington’s colorful use of the sustain pedal on This Oneís For Blanton as audible as his spare, bright, transient-like keyboard jabs and bassist Ray Brown’s ineffable touch, swinging style, and famously accurate intonation produce tear-drop-shaped quarter notes in the bottom octaves so dark, rich, and three-dimensionally rounded you could pluck them from the air like plums. (353)"