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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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.
Adcom GFA450....Audible Illusions L1.....VTL 5.5.......all within the last 7 years....
1973 Sony 2000F
1975 ARC SP-3A-1
1978 ARC SP-6C, E
1983 ARC SP-11
1986 Vendetta phono w/home built passive
1988 Home built line stage w/fet followers
1998 CTC Blowtorch

Still have the SP3-A-1 and will probably keep it forever......
McCormack Line Drive
B&K Pro 10 MC
Anthem Pre-1
Audio Research LS3
Pass Aleph L
Audible Illusions Modulus 3A
BAT VK 3i
BAT VK 30
Audible Illusions Modulus 3A
JJ Electronics 243
K&K Audio Custom preamp with phono using S&B TX102 for line stage(just got this beauty yesterday after a 3 week wait)

This does not include many preamps I auditioned in my system, some of them even long term, including the following:

Rogue 99
Kora Triode
FT Audio LW-1
Reference Line Preeminence 1A
Placette RVC
Cary V12P (Hot Rod version of SLP-98)
Coda 02B
1970 Citation SS
1974 Naim SS
1976 ML JC-1
1978 ML 1
1982 ML 10
2002 Pass Labs X2
2003 Pass Labs X2.5