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Old 10th April 2007   #26
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Originally Posted by woomanmoomin View Post
No input transformers?

Chinese valves? Waste of space, a lot of them. At least they can be changed easily enough, though.

I would have thought the distortion ought to be much smoother at 300V than 100V if the valve is a 12AX7 (as I think it is) but I guess you're right that there's a lot more separating this unit from the boutique stuff than just plate voltage. Not all of it easy to put right, either.
well no, what I meant was that it exhibits almost no distortion at high plate voltage. I love this preamp by the way, it's excellent, but it does miss a bit of mojo of high end gear. best of the low end stuff in my opinion though, as far as "tube" pres goes.


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