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RE: Ultimate BH Headphone Amp

Thanks for the kind words. This one was brought back from the studio a few years ago and is now the control preamp in my system. I don't usually wax poetic about gear, but Shawn keeps talking about how this preamp seems to have some magic in terms of tone and resolution. I'm inclined to agree, as I haven't been able to make any other preamp that sounds as good. The one downside is that it has been modified to 600:600 ohm input transformers from the original 10k:600 ohms, because we found the 4:1 stepdown ratio to be too much of a hit for the output level of a lot of my sources. So it really needs studio type sources with 600 ohm outputs connected to it. My phono and tape preamps are now 600 ohms transformer balanced out, but I had to tack a 600 ohm CF buffer on our new tube SeDACtion prototype (4Kohms output impedance, like a Seduction or Eros) to get it to sound happy thru the big preamp.



Edits: 10/15/09

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