Recommendable the Audio Space Reference 2 certainly is, solely on the basis of its linestage. Stellar, in fact. Paired with my reference phonostage, amps, speakers, and cables, it took me a step or two closer than I've ever before come to the absolute sound in the all-important midband, for which triumph it leaps very nearly to the head of the small class of linestages -- tube, transistor, and hybrid -- that I consider reference quality. Do note that Audio Space