Topic: What happened to Reactive Sounds (maker of the Boost Box)?

[sunjan]

I read up on old mic preamps like the Boost Box.

Reactive Sounds seemed to have some half-decent taper stuff, but geared towards less demanding MD users?!

It seems that went out of business late 2007:
http://web.archive.org/web/20071020040132/http://www.reactivesounds.com/

Does anyone know the story? The owner just decided to close shop?

[fmaderjr]

Maybe the success of Chris Church put them out of business. I have an old Boost Box, but despite the higher gain it is not nearly as well designed as the ST-9100 (I love that you can attenuate as well as amplify with the ST-9100). Chris Church ripped out the pain in the butt coiled output cable in my Boost Box for me and put in a 1/8 jack, but said that the quality of the amp was not exactly stellar.