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Attention K&K phono pre owners:

Kevin has a new major upgrade in the works that applicable to all previous models back to the first kit sold (sold to me and now in the hands of an audio friend). Check out Kevin's posting over on the K&K forum for details. I've been in contact with Kevin for weeks as he has worked to develop this and this should be very exciting. I haven't posted on this before at Kevin's request to keep this under wraps until he was ready for an announcement.
john_tracy
john_tracy OP
344 posts
 
It has "true" balanced inputs through its RCA jacks. Just use the switch to lift the ground connection. That's one of the virtues of transformer coupling. You can always have balanced connections.
lewm
13,778 posts
 
Thank you, John. Do you mean to say that the Maxx'd Out uses a transformer on the input side? I was not aware of that, and it is not obvious from the photos on the website. So is this new transformer upgrade employed at the input? I thought you were talking about an upgrade for the built-in SUT in the MC output stage.
lewm
13,778 posts
 
Sorry. I went to the URL you provided above, and I see that the latest upgrade is a change in the JFET used in the hybrid cascode at the preamp input. The post says nothing about an input transformer, one way or the other.
lewm
13,778 posts
 
Thank you, John. Do you mean to say that the Maxx'd Out uses a transformer on the input side? I was not aware of that, and it is not obvious from the photos on the website. So is this new transformer upgrade employed at the input? I thought you were talking about an upgrade for the built-in SUT in the MC output stage.
john_tracy OP
344 posts
 
It uses a transformer for the MC input, the MM does not and as a consequence is single ended. I just assumed (my bad) that someone buying a maxed out kit would be using a MC. If you want balanced inputs with the MM input stay tuned in. You never know what might be coming down the pike in future months.
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