Thanks for your inputs, Jarrett, engine, and Indie. Sometime after my last post in 2016, I bought a Manley Steelhead. It suits my particular needs for (1) multiple phono inputs, (2) MM and MC gain capability, and (3) LCR. It's LCR through the MM gain stage and uses autoformers to add gain for the MC inputs, so far as I can tell. Manley are fairly secretive about this circuit, but I got some info from an interview that Evanna Manley gave to 6 Moons Audio, where she described the output stage. From her description, I was able to tweak the output a bit which has made a positive improvement. Thomas Mayer seems to make some great stuff, and I envy you, Jarrett. Indie, what the heck is a 6F12P tube? Is that a Russian designation where maybe some of the letters are moved over from that cyrillic alphabet?
I still have curiosity for the BMC MCCI and for the 47 Labs 4712, which has the lowest input impedance of any I know about, nearly zero. I'd have to have one in my own system, at this point. Talk only goes so far.
I still have curiosity for the BMC MCCI and for the 47 Labs 4712, which has the lowest input impedance of any I know about, nearly zero. I'd have to have one in my own system, at this point. Talk only goes so far.