Then Julian discovered the Threshold 800A, a truly ground breaking design by a talented new designer named Nelson Pass.

I first became aware of Threshold at a young age, in fact, Threshold was my first introduction to the audiophile hobby.

I had the proverbial cool uncle who moved back to New Orleans after living in New York City, he bought with him his pride and joy, a Threshold Infinity kappa 9 system.

He was quite proud of that system, and rightfully so, it sounded awesome I learned so much about music, the audiophile hobby and life in general around that system, it really brings back great memories.

I lusted after Threshold gear ever since, a couple of years ago I realized the dream and put together my very own Threshold system.

Now they seem scarce and a lot more expensive than just two years ago.

Dont imagine myself getting another poweramp, unless this ons breaks down knocks on wood.

I lucked out when I had contacted someone about the Threshold fet10pc phono preamp, we wound up making a trade for my vintage McIntosh preamp for his Threshold preamp AND phono preamp, I know I couldnt have been happier with the deal, he felt the same way, good deal all around.

Satch, Who did the work on your amp I plan on keeping this system for a while so I have been thinking about sending one piece at a time to Jon Soderberg for some love.

I spoke to Jon a while back about recapping the pre and phono pre, extremely reasonable prices for the quality work he does.

Id be interested on hearing your thoughts on before and after the recap.

I feel like I am in Pulp Fiction, opening the briefcase full of gold, when I open up the phono preamp to make adjustments.

FET 10pc phono preamp Fet 10hl preamp I love the build quality in the Threshold gear, all that gold in there I have never seen another brand go so over the top.

I have to say the S300 was in pretty good nick when I bought it anyway, so it was more to prevent than to improve.

Ive heard very good things about Jon, so I wouldnt hesitate to bring my gear to him.

The audio shop where I hung around picked up the brand, but needed a power amp that was capable of driving its notoriously difficult reactive load.

The first one was a Dunlap-Clarke that was up to the job, but didnt sound particularly well.

It was both powerful and with its revolutionary sliding bias Class A output stage, sounded great.

Pass was well aware of those speakers and actually demoed his amps at shows using them.

I proactively replaced the Mallory power supply caps and bypassed them with films, but never had any trouble with it.

Nelsons current stuff at First Watt and Pass Labs remains at the top of the audio game.

Threshold S300 Manual