A great opportunity for someone to experience this excellent DIY Preamp. It uses the latest Stereo Coffee LDR boards and incorporates a separate fully modded clone Musical Fidelity X-10D valve buffer, using a pair of 6922 valves and mundorf caps. Valves inside are a pair of Matsushitas (my personal favourite after some rolling).
It was built according to my requirements by a friend with 35+ years of audio engineering experience.
It has been wired up so you can connect it any which way you like, so you can use it as a straight LDR passive, a straight MF X-10D buffer or (my preferred way of using it) with the LDR first followed by the buffer, plus tube rolling opportunities too, so a bit of a tweakers dream.
I prefer putting the buffer after the passive as this resolves impedance matching issues and drives longer cable lengths from your source, whilst also adding a dose of bass slam and punch, with just a little touch of valve magic, but YMMV.
The buffer runs in pure Class A I believe and has an output impedance of not a lot, so makes for an easy load for your amp/speakers.
It has 3 inputs (selected from the rear) and the volume is remote controlled.
Only selling because I am heading into the 'no preamp' route in one of my systems. I have another one of these I'm still using in my other system.
All told, it has around £600 worth of parts in it and is only 1 year old, but now selling at the bargain price of £400 including free delivery (UK only).
Ideally collection from near Melton Mowbray but will consider delivery at buyer's risk. Obviously being a DIY job it doesn't have official packaging, but if sending I would of course get it packaged up safely.
Any questions, just PM me.
Cheers
It was built according to my requirements by a friend with 35+ years of audio engineering experience.
It has been wired up so you can connect it any which way you like, so you can use it as a straight LDR passive, a straight MF X-10D buffer or (my preferred way of using it) with the LDR first followed by the buffer, plus tube rolling opportunities too, so a bit of a tweakers dream.
I prefer putting the buffer after the passive as this resolves impedance matching issues and drives longer cable lengths from your source, whilst also adding a dose of bass slam and punch, with just a little touch of valve magic, but YMMV.
The buffer runs in pure Class A I believe and has an output impedance of not a lot, so makes for an easy load for your amp/speakers.
It has 3 inputs (selected from the rear) and the volume is remote controlled.
Only selling because I am heading into the 'no preamp' route in one of my systems. I have another one of these I'm still using in my other system.
All told, it has around £600 worth of parts in it and is only 1 year old, but now selling at the bargain price of £400 including free delivery (UK only).
Ideally collection from near Melton Mowbray but will consider delivery at buyer's risk. Obviously being a DIY job it doesn't have official packaging, but if sending I would of course get it packaged up safely.
Any questions, just PM me.
Cheers
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