Phono preamp using BF862?

[Pano]

Moved to Analog Source

 

[Ian Greenhalgh]

I made an inventory of all my transistors and unfortunately, I don't have as many BF862s as I thought, in fact, I have just 5 of them. I do have quite a lot of other JFETs though, so I'll have to select something else to use. I listed what I have below.

 

[Ian Greenhalgh]

While waiting for the PCBs to arrive, I made a set of perfboard versions using WIMA MKS4 and EVOX MMK caps. I haven't added the JFETs yet as I need to measure the ones I have and make some matched sets. I'm just curious to see if a version using cheaper less exotic caps sounds significantly different.