[pawlowski6132]

Has anyone ever tried this???

It seems like it would be pretty cool. Please let me know. I'm very curious.



http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls....ube&1139731962

 

[USER NAME:]

I have not heard that unit, but Sonic Frontiers was owned by Chris Johnson who now owns Parts Connexion (a new sponsor of Head-Fi). I have heard nothing but praise about Sonic Frontier products.

 

[edisonwu]

has anyone heard about this preamp?

Silver colour anodised aluminum faceplate, Jaguar 'Anthracite Black' clear coat finish on a solid steel chassis. Variable MC cartridge loading with settings for 30, 100 or 330 ohms, remote volume control and muting, 1 Cinema Bypass, 1 tape monitor loop, 1 XLR balanced stereo input, 3 RCA stereo inputs, 1 XLR balanced and 2 RCA pairs of preamplifier outputs. External power supply with 5AR4 vacuum tube voltage rectification. Timer warm up circuit allows the SLP 05 to be used safely with rapid turn on solid state power amplifiers. The headphone power amplifier uses 12AU7 vacuum tubes for fantastic headphone listening!

 

[MikeW]

holy crap that is alot of tubes

 

[tom hankins]

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Originally Posted by edisonwu has anyone heard about this preamp? Silver colour anodised aluminum faceplate, Jaguar 'Anthracite Black' clear coat finish on a solid steel chassis. Variable MC cartridge loading with settings for 30, 100 or 330 ohms, remote volume control and muting, 1 Cinema Bypass, 1 tape monitor loop, 1 XLR balanced stereo input, 3 RCA stereo inputs, 1 XLR balanced and 2 RCA pairs of preamplifier outputs. External power supply with 5AR4 vacuum tube voltage rectification. Timer warm up circuit allows the SLP 05 to be used safely with rapid turn on solid state power amplifiers. The headphone power amplifier uses 12AU7 vacuum tubes for fantastic headphone listening!

This is a prototype photo of the Cary SLP-05 preamp. The final product uses eight 6sn7 tubes (no 12au7 tubes) and two of them are for the headphone section. It is an all tube design with a seperate tubed (instead of internal) power supply. More info can be seen at www.caryaudio.com
The early reviews say it is a very good preamp. It does not have the phono stage in the final propduct.

 

[edisonwu]

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Originally Posted by tom hankins This is a prototype photo of the Cary SLP-05 preamp. The final product uses eight 6sn7 tubes (no 12au7 tubes) and two of them are for the headphone section. It is an all tube design with a seperate tubed (instead of internal) power supply. More info can be seen at www.caryaudio.com The early reviews say it is a very good preamp. It does not have the phono stage in the final propduct.

I took this pic from stoneaudio. and there they state this is balanced preamp using 4*12AX7 and 2*12AU7. But I later got quite a different description from cary audio. I love the one from stoneaudio better..

 

[edisonwu]

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Originally Posted by MikeW holy crap that is alot of tubes

this comes the power supply as well, same size as the amp. lol