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Originally Posted by RobJB06  Bump for the Vari Mu ! Albert...  |
A bit of patience Rob....
we shall present variable Mu (or Vari S ?) compressor a bit later since we have dances
around of it still, more exactly with side chain of compressor since it have many variants which we wanna try, sound path is OK.
Meanwhile, on many requests we present half-officially
Mirror preamp which is ready but has not description on the our web-site still, meanwhile many customers send us questions for it, so we picture it for them.
So, device has all balanced sound path with input and output transformers, of course. All balanced circuit supress even harmonics as known, has better noise/hum rejection, high headroom, wide dynamical and frequency range. Key words - tight, speed, linearity, power. Many old and rare preamps RCA, WE, Altec, Collins etc-etc-etc had all balanced circuits.
Thus, Mirror has headroom up to 26-28 dbu@ ~ 1,5-2,0% THD with powerfull 10W output transformers and up to +23dbu at the input, noise floor ~ - 87-90dB, in "white field".
Cinemag input transformers also (though in this sample Jensen were installed, but Cinemag will be installed further).
Oh, sorry. Mirror is tube preamp, of course
Device has "point-to-point" internal wiring.
Many people ask: "- what is difference between Mirror and our Affinity?"
Affinity has single end circuit topology (SE) with own charm as well as SE circuits overall.... more vintage, lazy sounding. Mirror is more tight and high-speed (due to balanced circuit with twice voltage).
It could be comparison like a Bentley (as Affnity) and BMW (as Mirror), or Fender (as Affinity) and Gibson (as Mirror).
You can see more pictures on device page and listen first audio samples (drums, voices, bass guitar individually) -
Mirror fully balanced tube preamp
May be, we shall involve some customers (if they will have free time from work in studios) for additional comments here who owned first prototypes of Mirror (and Affinity also) year ago and tracked line of material during this time.
