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Sleeper Vintage Tube Gear?

Hello All,

I'm pretty good with a soldering iron, used to be a tech, and have built a few guitar amps from scratch as well as repaired/modded others soooooo…….

Any recommendations of vintage sleeper tube amps or preamps (home audio) that I can look for to repair, upgrade, modify that would be relatively inexpensive, say $200 each ?

Thanks
gorquin
gorquin OP
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In another post I mention wanting to rip my LP's to digital because some were never offered on CD.

I have a Kenwood C1 preamp that I'm thinking of doing some upgrade mods to. I love the sound of tube gear for guitar work and am wondering if something like a Dynaco PAS tube preamp would sound better than the upgraded Kenwood C1 if I modded the PAS' phono section?

Anyone have any experience with this?
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zd542
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I think a vintage tube or SS preamp in the signal chain will impose too much of its sound on the recordings. I would bypass the preamp and go directly into a CD recorder. Its a much cleaner solution, and if you want to do any type of processing, it will be much easier to do it working from a CD.
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