Preamp Deal of the Century

@snopro   Thanks!  That’s exactly what I’ll do with the subs.  They do have speaker level inputs, so should be fine.

​@tksteingraber ​thanks for sharing the tech’s info and the thread.

@jslateiv  thanks for the explanation on the grounding — makes sense.  Nowvthat I know how it’s meant to operate, i can set it up properly. The Freya+ spoiled me with features but the Chardonnay sounds so much better.  

Thank you all for helping me out!

I am interested. I have a home theater system so I need a pre amp that has a bypass. Does the Supratek have a bypass mode?

@galleybob No, it does not.

Greetings, fellow Supratek owners.

The topic of this post is to ask whether anyone here is using a step up transformer with their Supratek preamp with the LCR phono stage. If so, what kind are you using and how are you setting it up?

I am in the process of evaluating several SUTs and a Hagerman transimpedance device directly into my system. I turn down the input gain so it doesn't overload the phono circuit and it seems to work well. I'm enjoying the effect of the SUTs. In some ways they remind me of a subtle DBX system (anybody remember those from back in the '80s?) That is, they seem to increase the dynamics. 

So, anybody else been down this path before?

@marcusthenaimnut,

 I am no expert, but what you are doing doesn’t make sense to me. The Cortese has a very high gain phono stage, I have one myself. You are turning down the gain on the Moving Coil pre, then boosting it back up with step up transformers? 
 

SUT’s work with Moving Magnet phono stages that have a 47k loading. You cant set the load to 47k on an MC phono stage.