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Personal Preamp Evolution

I found the the threads on the amplifier evolution very intriguing,the speaker evolution thread as well .I am not sure if there is already a thread regarding preamps.Many of us failed to mention their preamps[myself included] in the amplifier thread.After all, it really is an amplifier per say.
1967...Dyna pas 2 from a kit
1974...Dayton wright spa
1975...Mark Levinson JC-2
1976...Audio Research SP-3
1977... Van Alistine mods on Sp-3a,removed tone controls etc
1981...Audio Research Sp-6a
1982... revised to sp-6b
1983...traded back to the Audio Research sp-3a and modded further
1976..Audio Research Sp-10,revised to 10b[still in use]
1990...MFA Luminescence B[still my reference]
1996...ARC sp-8 mk2,Cat SL1 signature MK2
2000...DIY line stage,tube rectified,6sn-7gt's for gain.
2002 to present...Supratek Syrah,

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jeffloistarca
1,004 posts
 
Main system:

Quad preamp (#33?)
Audio Reasearch SP9 MkII
Audio Research SP14
Balanced Audio Technology VK30 (my current reference)
Lehmann Black Cube (do phono preamps count?)

Other preamps:

Threshold FET Ten (lasted one afternoon)
Lazurus Cascode (used as a phono stage for a short time)
Classe Thirty (in use in my office system)

I think preamps ought to contain tubes! Do yourself a favour and check out the BAT stuff. Best, Jeff
slappy
903 posts
 
Thats easy

DBX CX-3
pbb
1,140 posts
 
Pre section of Pioneer SA-9500-II
Yamaha C-4
Rotel 910 ?
PS Audio 4.6 with the large ps
Adcom GFP-565
Audio Research LS8 Mk 2
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jond
6,056 posts
 
Not much here,
Bryston B-60 used as a preamp>
Air Tight ATC-1 current reference
Next, who knows?
gunbei
2,327 posts
 
I'm sitting with four preamps in my room now.

Blue Circle BC21
BAT VK3i
Luminous Audio AXIOM
Antique Soundlabs T1 DT

No EVO here, just dinosaurs and homosapiens coexisting, and I won't say which is which.
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