P42 Climax Line Amp

First off for the anti dongle fraction: no dongle, no dongle software required.
Second for the anti c&r fraction: it is c&r.

If you're still interested, there's a 40-day fully functional trial for 2 computers.
Enough time to consider the individual pros & cons.

Price tag is highly anti-cyclical, so it must bring something on the plate ...
and it does.

It is a riddle to me how an emulation can go that far
to appear so true and authentic vs the original sound
within a fair amount of usage (can of course "destroy" the sound).
As a regular user of AA plugins I am pretty surprised by the quality of the P42
and welcome it's capacities frankly missed in AA land.

P42 doesn't force the sound into it's predetermined routines,
rather goes with the given sound and enhance what's there.

Maybe that's what hw units did back in the days,
I cannot judge that but I had the impression it must have been like this.
To call it a preamp may be right when we talk about those "back in the days" units
otherwise it is so flexible one can easily say
it is also a sound shaper, a distortion box, an enhancer and what not.

All that definitely in a quality unheard before, so 5 stars all the way.