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In Reply to: RE: Does the HK Citadtion II Craze NEED a preamp? posted by unclestu on December 09, 2014 at 07:28:04
For $7k it better sound good, clean my yard and massage my prostate!It's numbers like that, that I have to start agreeing with my wife. You're making me start a bad president.
Edits: 12/09/14Follow Ups:
Mentioned it because of the doubters who seem to feel that a II is not worth restoring
Hegeman was an interesting designer, ahead of his time in many ways
Just use a nice integrated amp like the S5000 or others, picking based on your power requirements. You will get 70-75% of the sound of the separates and only spend under $1000, fully rebuilt, fully tubed, and you will enjoy your music and spend your money elsewhere. Chasing that last 25% is very expensive. The little integrated amps are very musical.
Yes, you can run the II with a passive pre. I have a little one with an Alps volume pot in it that doesn't sound bad at all. That said, when I hook up a Citation I, or one of my two custom built 6SN7 based line stages it sounds much better to my ears. But my little passive is just for testing. I suppose if I put together one with a really good volume pot, or better yet a great attenuator it would be better. I am happy with my active line stages though....
I tend to prefer a preamp, but I also like to have tone controls and must have phono preamp. I would think it would be hard to go wrong with a vintage HK preamp. Eve Joe "R" liked them!
Dave
I built a 76 tube line stage. The 76 tube is very linear. A few main amps sounded a little more dynamic with the line-stage. Of course, a preamp of low quality would not outperform a passive input.
I have read about those but I don't think I am ready for a ground up build yet (and I do mean yet!).
Dave
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