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O.K. here is another one. Might not look very special, but it is the piece of equipment wich still stays into my system for years now after swapping a lot of other components. Somethings you just fall in love with, so this little baby deserves a place here.
It's a tranformer coupled preamp using the Raytheon 5842 triode, with a totally over dimensioned power supply filled with Black Gates super e-caps. Wasn't any good according to many audiophiles those days, you had to use Paper/oil otherwise it was not audiophile. (electrolytics, yaach) Now all these same guys are raving about black gate as though they have invented them themselves. Sometimes I really get bored with this so called High End community with their flavour of the season trends. PEOPLE PLEASE DONT BELIEVE THE HYPE !!!!!!!!! The transformers are custom made on my own specifications by AE-europe, not that this is a garantee for qulity but it worked out just fine.
The sound:
It's got a little blur at low frequencys and is just a little bit restrained at the top end. Due to that it can sound a little bit bold sometimes but it is dynamic, dynamic and dynamic and that's just what I love about it and that's the fact why it hasn't been replaced after such a long time. I've heard other pre's perform better in some respect but until now never in the dynamic department.
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Don't you know that makes the stage sound all laminated and glued together! 
Another plywood version
