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My a-musical woes, mentioned briefly above, were traced to the ML2s' fading drivers.  This report is written after the 6N6Ps were repalced.  As it turns out, the TAP did not figure into the problems, and minor system changes do not effect things as markedly now as when the bad drivers were messing with the sound and the music both.

Based on CD bypass and comparing CDs with "the same" LP the TAP is as much like "nothing" as I have experienced to date.  Since I had futzed with my phono source, unwittingly trying to compensate for the ML2s' fading drivers, I had to re-tune the system starting with CD as a basis once I'd discovered my mistake and replaced the bad 6N6Ps.

I am pleased with the TAP's "neutrality" in my system, which features short ICs, low impedance feeding the TAP and (apparently) high-enough input impedance into the ML2s.  Basically, there's not much to tell about the TAP.  Music gets through/comes across fine, so any subtractive effect I might be missing is not wrecking the music.  The TAP does not "overload" from anything I have fed it.  It makes NO sound of its own, even cranked wide open.  One caveat might be that studio "techniques" are now utterly apparent, albeit this does not interfere with the music in my system.  Although the TAP does not "highlight" engineering hijinks or poor recording, it does seem to render this sort of stuff as apart from the music, and I like this.

I am not "recommending" this component, just reporting, and in this case results are positive.  You can link from the BENT Audio website to a white paper on the S&B 102 [TVC] if you want to run the math and/or are concerned about possible effects of impedance/loads, etc., or if you are simply one to do your homework.

Best regards,
Paul S

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