Superphon Revelation II Preamp with Phono Stage

@sugomania 

"I hooked it up to a Counterpoint SA 100 power amp and it’s just too much power amp for this pre amp."

What do you mean by that?

To make a Reader’s Digest story out of all of this, I was having problems with my Lazarus Cascade Basic per amp and took it into SoundsClassic to have it worked on; the left and right attenuators were not working. It was really dirty and Mark went over it with a fine tooth comb, installed new caps, replaced the tubes and got it working like a charm.

I happened to notice the Superphon Revelation II Preamp with Phono Stage on a shelf in the used equipment section of the store. It’s an excellent stereo amp. I use the Lazarus Cascade Basic with my HiFi recordings. The Lazarus has a volume control for stereo and right and left attenuators for high fidelity reproduction. I have a lot of HiFi recordings. ( plus right minus left to create a stereo image ) The volume control is then used as gain.

What I mean by that is when I connected the Superphon Revelation II Preamp with Phono Stage onto my Counterpoint SA 100 power amp I could barely crank up the volume on the power amp without creating way too much volume. It’s almost like a really good forty watt amp would be plenty to power up the volume on the preamp. The Superphon Revelation II Preamp with Phono Stage has an ALPS volume control and I could barely get it passed three notches without it being way too loud. 

Ok, so the Superphon  has high gain. In that case, if you want to use it with the Counterpoint, don't turn up the gain control on the amp. All of the power will still be available if needed.