Reply To: 6/12SN7 pre amp universal build

[marchunter]

All finished and playing music.
Let me go back to the beginning and tell you why I bought this kit. I have a set of mono blocks that are so wonderfully transparent it’s heaven. Only problem is you can’t run more than one source. So obvi I needed a pre. I started out with only the mono’s which were fed by a digital receiver/DAC. So the signal path is very uncluttered. Once you have the need for more sources you start to cloud the signal path with “stuff”. But I needed a way to play my vinyl as well as digital. So Jim and Charles’ pre kit was my answer.
I now have the same digital path as well as my vinyl and it’s fairly astonishing to me that I don’t hear any type of signal degradation with now a pre amp and a phono stage in line. Of course I hear the vinyl noise but that is a good thing. When I switch to the digital side I hear nothing different then what I heard before. THIS PRE AMP IS DEAD QUIET. That to me is where the rubber meets the road. On the digital side it’s the source I hear. On the vinyl side it’s the record and the recording I hear ONLY. This is a wonderful tool to evaluate recordings.
Thanks guys for a wonderful pre. You got it right.