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In Reply to: RE: Seeking recommendations for warm, rich, fat sounding, syrupy tube phono preamp posted by Mr Blue Sky on May 19, 2017 at 19:29:48
A search around here reveals a few users. There were also Calrad equivalents. Just get a tech to renovate some of the caps and resistors and you should be all set with some vintage über-fi!
(picture from vinylengine.com)
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
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I'm going to guess you've never heard one of these? I've had the one pictured and many of the off-brand similar versions. They have all been sold due to being the absolute opposite of the sound I am looking for. They're wretched, thin-sounding, overrated.
That wasn't my experience - but then I was listening to a Pickering 380 through it and it had been re-capped and, to an extent, re-voiced. I don't have one any more, though.
Good luck with your search.
Big J
"... only a very few individuals understand as yet that personal salvation is a contradiction in terms."
Ah, the truth comes out! ;)Re-capped and re-voiced? So what you had wasn't really a Shure M65. Stock Shure M65 is a nasty piece of business.
380 is a very dark cartridge. In fact, I have an industry friend who measured one and it starts rolling off sharply at 7KHz. He built some inline resistors to flatten the response. Trust me, if you heard what the 380 is really doing to your vinyl in the high frequencies, you'd never use one again. And of course, take almost any cartridge, eq for a dramatic 7KHz roll-off, and it will sound strikingly similar to a Stanton 380.
Edits: 05/22/17
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