As I said at the start I could easily live with all four of these phonostages, but were I forced to choose one for the long haul, the Soulution 755 would be my pick. It is not only the most complete-sounding phono-preamp I’ve yet heard; it is also, in my opinion, the single best product Soulution has thus far made and marketed. It goes without saying, or should, that it gets my highest, most enthusiastic, and most affectionate recommendation. Why affectionate? Because I love the thing.

As for the way it sounds, well, if you take the extraordinary midband resolution of the Audio Consulting Silver Rock, the top-to-bottom transient speed, detail, and soundstaging prowess of the Constellation Perseus, and the bloom, color, and dimensionality of the VAC Statement Phono, then add the most solid power range and powerful low bass you’ve heard from a phonostage preamplifier, you’ve got something like the 755.

Whether it’s because of their successful implementation of NFB or their very short signal paths or their dual-mono configuration or their virtually unlimited power supplies, Soulution components have always done several things better than the other solid-state and tube units I’ve reviewed. First, they have the kind of three-dimensional imaging that you generally only hear with valves. Second, they have an incredibly hard-hitting bottom octave. Third, they have an extraordinary power range that adds lifelike foundation and color to the midband and makes the transition to the low bass more continuous (albeit at the price of a somewhat “bottom-up” tonal balance).

When connected directly to an amplifier, the 755 does all three of these things, making it the most realistic-sounding phonostage of the lot. It not only fills in the Big Blank Spot by offering superb resolution, lifelike bloom, three dimensionality, dense tone color, lightning transient speed, and wall-to-wall soundstaging in a single package—making it appealing to fidelity-to-source and absolute sound listeners alike—it also has the midbass slam, low-bass extension and grip, and power range fullness that musicality-first listeners adore. I must say that I haven’t heard anything else quite like it.

The Soulution 755 (in combination with the Soulution 711 amplifier) delivers the muscular ache and beauty of “King Harvest” better than I’ve ever before heard it delivered. It is simply magical to hear Helm sitting beside his drums and cymbals in three dimensions—you can almost see him cocking his head and scrunching up his face toward the microphone. To hear Danko’s Fender bass sound not just incredibly dense in color, but ropelike in texture—thick, rounded, there. (Bass strings just don’t get reproduced with this kind of three-dimensionality without a sacrifice in speed, color, and definition.) To hear Robbie Robertson’s elliptical guitar work (about which he wrote: “This was the new way of dealing with the guitar for me, this very subtle playing, leaving out a lot of stuff and just waiting until the last second and then playing the thing in the nick of time”) with its lightning-flash-in-the-clouds suddenness and luminosity intact.

Link do recenzji: Soulution 755 – The Absolute Sound

Link: Soulution 755 – The Absolute Sound – Golden Ear 2016

Link: Soulution 755 – The Absolute Sound – Editor's Choice 2023