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Some Chinese company is selling an alleged knockoff of a Convergent Audio Technologies preamp on eBay for a few hundred dollars.
They show the circuit board. The CAT has a off-board regulated power supply for each stage of each channel. The Chinese version has one power supply.
I strongly suspect all those separate power supplies is what's responsible for the CAT's phenomenal dynamics.
While I'm not going to spend the thousands of dollars required to prove it, I'll bet the Chinese knockoff is a pale imitation of the real thing, and anyone who hears the knockoff without hearing the real thing will be left with doubt as to the quality of the CAT.
And no, unfortunately we don't have one for sale.
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Topic - Chinese "Knockoff" of CAT preamp - Lee of Omaha 14:56:46 03/08/18 (34)
- try an aikido preamp - thump 16:13:42 03/12/18 (0)
- RE: Chinese "Knockoff" of CAT preamp - LaszloPhoto 00:12:11 03/10/18 (0)
- RE: Chinese "Knockoff" of CAT preamp - timothywas1@comcast.net 08:42:44 03/09/18 (1)
- RE: Chinese "Knockoff" of CAT preamp - Dynobot 10:24:39 03/09/18 (0)
- The actual term used - E-Stat 08:19:19 03/09/18 (0)
- But wait....there's more... - Tom 06:16:54 03/09/18 (2)
- RE: But wait....there's more... - E-Stat 08:24:29 03/09/18 (1)
- In this case, perhaps 'JC' part is the only one that matters.... - Ivan303 08:17:06 03/10/18 (0)
- Two Points: - cawson@onetel.com 02:39:38 03/09/18 (6)
- RE: Two Points: - Sondek 11:48:07 03/09/18 (5)
- RE: Two Points: - cawson@onetel.com 11:56:02 03/09/18 (4)
- RE: Two Points: - Sondek 12:07:33 03/09/18 (3)
- RE: Two Points: - cawson@onetel.com 13:35:31 03/09/18 (2)
- +1 - airtime 17:43:48 03/09/18 (0)
- RE: Two Points: - Sondek 13:49:07 03/09/18 (0)
- Link - Awe-d-o-file 22:48:23 03/08/18 (1)
- Lite Audio makes some pretty good stuff.... - Ivan303 07:53:24 03/09/18 (0)
- RE: Chinese "Knockoff" of CAT preamp - fstein 22:20:23 03/08/18 (0)
- Better hope it doesn't break... - Mr. Dick Hertz 20:03:13 03/08/18 (7)
- RE: Better hope it doesn't break... - John Elison 23:45:14 03/08/18 (6)
- You're going from one extreme to another. - Mr. Dick Hertz 08:42:15 03/13/18 (3)
- RE: You're going from one extreme to another. - mcgjohn@yahoo.com 09:51:08 03/13/18 (0)
- RE: You're going from one extreme to another. - John Elison 09:23:39 03/13/18 (1)
- Show stopper? - Mr. Dick Hertz 10:51:30 03/13/18 (0)
- RE: Better hope it doesn't break... - Sondek 11:36:28 03/09/18 (1)
- RE: Better hope it doesn't break... - John Elison 09:14:50 03/13/18 (0)
- RE: Chinese "Knockoff" of CAT preamp - Sondek 19:32:06 03/08/18 (0)
- I don't see the problem - jedrider 17:28:16 03/08/18 (5)
- RE: I don't see the problem - Lee of Omaha 18:11:18 03/08/18 (4)
- RE: I don't see the problem - John Elison 19:10:46 03/08/18 (3)
- RE: I don't see the problem - Palustris 09:28:48 03/09/18 (2)
- RE: I don't see the problem - Utley1 16:15:28 03/09/18 (0)
- It's a ploy... - kootenay 10:49:10 03/09/18 (0)
- At least... - mkuller 15:54:13 03/08/18 (0)
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