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In Reply to: ANK AudioNoteKit Preamp Line: ?Sweet spot posted by fstein on February 21, 2019 at 14:37:19:
The L3 Mk 2 is a very nice sounding kit preamp, particularly with the C-core transformers and an upgraded volume pot and NOS tubes. That said, building one is very likely to be an exercise in frustration. From my own experience and what I've read of others, the kit will arrive with a number of parts missing, the resolution of which will take weeks to resolve, most likely by you having to source on your own the parts that ANK still hasn't provided. Parts will differ significantly from what the directions describe, and you will be forced to wing it at some point. Contrary to kits such as Bottlehead or Tubes For HiFi, there are no test values to guide you and reassure you that you have assembled everything correctly, so you will have to take it on faith that your finished preamp is operating as designed. If that doesn't dissuade you, then I'd say that in my system I think it outperformed a Halo JC2, which gives it some sort of price-to-performance sweet spot. Would I build one again? Probably not.
John K.
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- RE: ANK AudioNoteKit Preamp Line: ?Sweet spot - thegage 22:03:20 02/21/19 (3)
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- RE: ANK AudioNoteKit Preamp Line: ?Sweet spot - dth31 07:44:06 02/22/19 (0)
- RE: ANK AudioNoteKit Preamp Line: ?Sweet spot - fstein 05:06:55 02/22/19 (0)
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