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When I reviewed Simaudio's <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/content/simaudio-moon-evolution-880m-monoblock-power-amplifier">Moon Evolution 880M</a> monoblock amplifier for the June 2013 issue, I communicated via phone and e-mail with the company's VP of marketing, Lionel Goodfield. When the topic of hearing the 880Ms at their best came up, I could almost imagine him shrugging as he said, "Just use it with the most transparent, revealing preamp you can find." Not surprisingly, he then went on to say that Simaudio's own Moon Evolution 850P would serve nicely in that role. My cynical side might normally have discounted any such suggestion from a marketing man, but I'd been hearing the same sort of thing from other sources. And, as it happened, there was an 850P at <i>Stereophile</i> World Headquarters . . .
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<b>Love at First Sight</b><br />When it comes to being swayed by a pretty face or curves that are just so, I'm as shallow as the next guy
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/simaudio-moon-evolution-850p-line-preamplifier]
When I reviewed Simaudio's <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/content/simaudio-moon-evolution-880m-monoblock-power-amplifier">Moon Evolution 880M</a> monoblock amplifier for the June 2013 issue, I communicated via phone and e-mail with the company's VP of marketing, Lionel Goodfield. When the topic of hearing the 880Ms at their best came up, I could almost imagine him shrugging as he said, "Just use it with the most transparent, revealing preamp you can find." Not surprisingly, he then went on to say that Simaudio's own Moon Evolution 850P would serve nicely in that role. My cynical side might normally have discounted any such suggestion from a marketing man, but I'd been hearing the same sort of thing from other sources. And, as it happened, there was an 850P at <i>Stereophile</i> World Headquarters . . .
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<b>Love at First Sight</b><br />When it comes to being swayed by a pretty face or curves that are just so, I'm as shallow as the next guy
[Source: http://www.stereophile.com/content/simaudio-moon-evolution-850p-line-preamplifier]