Looking for a new pre-amp!!


At present I have a Belles OCM 200 Amp and looking to up grade to a better pre amp. Looking at a Adcom 565

Sunfire pre amp and Aragon 18k or 24 unit. Also thinking about the Emotiva usp 1 pre amp. I a two channel guy and looking for the best unit with a phono section and great sound.

Any ideals as to the best pick for under a 1000  dollars?

Wayne

wayne3720
wayne3720

Many Belles amps are just around 1v input sensitivity for full output.

Make sure you pick either a passive preamp or active with little or unity gain.

The last thing you want is to have loud listening level around 8 to 9 o’clock on the the volume knob.

And if your source/s have higher than 2v this will exacerbate the problem even more.

Cheers George
For just under $1000, you can build the SP14 kit from VTA and get something to set up against those much, much more expensive preamps you see on Audiogon.

http://www.tubes4hifi.com/SP14.htm

...or you could build the same sort of thing from scratch using boards from Glass-ware Audio. Would cost you about $500 in parts.

http://glass-ware.stores.yahoo.net/listheam.html

Just google "aikido preamp" and do some reading.