Polk CS350ls.....ATOLL preamp.......

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I bought this a couple of months ago and have never used it.
Now I am forced to clean out my extra bedroom/audio equipment room for a total makeover.
It is in oustanding condition, Excellent ++ condition, in fact I have never seen a better speciman, and this is the 3rd one I have owned.

$150/shipped!

Here is the original thread, with pics:

http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showthread.php?146370-Cs350-ls.

I also have an Atoll PR5.1 preamp I am going to sell, in excellent condition.
Original box, packing material and remote.
I only have the users manual on pdf.

It has the optional brushed aluminum front, and the $375/optional DSD board.
They sell for around $1200/new on Agon.
One heavy SOB!

$425/shipped. I'll throw in a brand new 4ft XLO 12 ga. power cable.

Lower 48 states only please.
Paypal or US Postal money order.

Systems

Bump!

Atoll is off to Agon tomorrow (I have both IsoClean and Furutech fuses for it).

Some info from Stereophile, By (Kalman Rubinson):

PR5.1 ($2500), a pure analog preamplifier with two six-channel and four stereo inputs. Like all Atoll Electronique products, the PR5.1 is made in France, mostly by hand, and is styled with simple grace.
In fact, the Atoll is, operationally, most akin to my reference Bel Canto Pre6 (reviewed in December 2003) and the recently reviewed Audio Research MP1 (September 2007), at a much lower price.

All that would be sufficient justification for our interest, but the Atoll has one feature that distinguishes it from all other models: For an extra $375, Atoll will graft onto the PR5.1 what it calls "the DSP Option." This adds three digital inputs and one digital output (all as optical and coax), three video inputs and one video output (all as composite and S-video), and some swift software that integrates all the new functions without disturbing the classic operations of the basic analog preamplifier. The D/A section is specified as using Burr-Brown "24-bit/96kHz" converters.

The PR5.1 accepts and decodes Dolby Digital, DTS, MPEG (2.0 to 5.1 channel), and, of course, S/PDIF. It's still an analog preamp—not a digital preamp with an analog bypass. Or perhaps it's more accurate to call it an analog preamp with a built-in A/V pre-pro.

The sound, too, was excellent, with good center fill and surprisingly good spectral balance from plain old S/PDIF data from CDs or cable music channels. In fact, as with the Cary Cinema 11 that preceded the PR5.1, I never found it necessary or desirable to impose signal processing, such as Dolby Pro Logic II, on two-channel sources, which already sounded full and spacious
PR5.1's Burr-Brown DACs were clearly capable of swimming with the audiophile sharks.

All this makes the Atoll PR5.1, in my experience, a unique product. The base unit is an excellent analog preamplifier that has all the inputs and outputs needed for multichannel and stereo functions, at a price lower than any other full-feature multichannel preamp. You can add the DSP Option (and ignore its outdated video options) to access DD and DTS soundtracks for music or movies without giving up any aspect of sound or function. If you're basically a two-channel audiophile but want to add an SACD and/or DVD-Audio player for multichannel, the PR5.1 is an attractive and obvious choice.

pitdogg2

Smokin price on that Atoll GLWS

Systems

CS350 is going to CL.
Atoll to the Gon.

Both are no longer available.