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New Rogue Pre

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Posted on December 17, 2014 at 20:31:20
ratbbb2
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 Well today while picking up some gear at Rogue Audio, Mark showed me the finished product of their new Pre amp. I had briefly listened to it when I dropped off my Ares to get modified but it had no faceplate. Here is what I think is an un-official release from rogues site. http://www.rogueaudio.com/New.htm

 

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RE: New Rogue Pre, posted on December 17, 2014 at 20:51:05
mulveling
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Location: Atl
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 What did you get modded on the Ares? Kinda miss mine (used w/ 1131), but Rogue wasn't too hot on offering me mod options when I asked last year, and ended up going back to a modded Sonic Frontiers. With the right mods I bet it's killer.

The new pre looks nice, but also looks like it's trying to be a lot of things to a lot of people. I haven't heard a good headphone out from them yet; it's really hard to do this right, and I have a very high standard (prefer Stax anyways). Wonder if the line section is 12AU7/12AX7, 6SN7, or 6H30, or even tubed at all. Absolutely love my Hera II, and it looks like they're not superseding that -- yet, at least.

 

wow, that looks great, posted on December 17, 2014 at 21:15:09
mbnx01
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 Don't think I'll be selling my SP17, but if I were in the market for a PRE this would be at the top of my list.








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RE: New Rogue Pre, posted on December 18, 2014 at 03:56:29
ratbbb2
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Location: New Jersey
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 All I had done was change some resisters to replace the 300Ohm loading with a 700 in the mid gain input. I wasn't 100% satisfied with 1K or 300 for my Helikon. I already hat the SUT upgraded to the 1131 Equivalents (cinemag1254) .

 

RE: New Rogue Pre, posted on December 18, 2014 at 05:31:17
fantja
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 Thanks! for sharing.

 

RE: New Rogue Pre, posted on December 18, 2014 at 09:52:28
classfolkphile
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Location: Florida
Joined: December 17, 2002
 Four 12AU7s according to the info on the page. The headphone amp uses the tubes so it should sound better than their previous op-amp based units but I agree that it really is extraneous to a line stage. And the phono stage should be an extra cost option. They're reducing their market by charging for things that many people won't want.

 

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