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In Reply to: RE: The Best Preamp Ever. The Heathkit AA-11 posted by geezerrocket on October 03, 2016 at 07:46:54
Now did Mrs. Geezerrocket make you get rid of this?
Dang you guys are having too much fun!
Like I posted over at AudioKarma. I wish I had the funds to have a nice vintage preamp restored. Unfortunately I am committed ($) to my Conrad Johnson. Or Mr.Clean as I call it.
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Stace found me the deal on it and told me about it.
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong" H. L. Mencken
Hi Mike,
When David Hafler left Dynaco in the late 70's his first preamp was the Hafler 101. Airtime can check me, but before his own named company the PAT-5 bi-fet was his last Dyna preamp.
Tubes didn't matter to me yet and the Hafler 101 non tube was getting rave reviews! I was tempted to save up and get a brand new preamp, that one.
The specs were all there. But one thing was keeping me back. It was those cheap looking black plastic spring switches. They didn't align right looking at them when one was pressed in. They remind me off the switches seen on your Heathkit.
You then showed an interior picture of the Heathkit preamp and it looks like a small factory going on behind those switches. It
looks like there was some money spent there by the Heath designer or designers.
Mike, could this be one of the reasons the Heathkit preamp you have sounds so good? Everyone on this forum trusts your ears...Bucko!...Richie just said that on the Happy Days, I'll turn the tv down.
As one of my unfinished projects are 2 mono Heathkit preamps that replaced the gold colored ones. I'd like to send you a picture, 1973 Shovel has shown me how, and see if you think it's worth pursuing....you too Airtime.....thanks youze guys...Mark Korda
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