Top-of-the-range preamplifier (1)

TOP-OF-THE- RANGE PRE- AMPLIFIER-Part 1 The accent throughout the design of this preamplifier has been on quality and the avoidance of unnecessary features, such as tone control and remote operation. It is not cheap to build: probably around .£2004250, but then, a commercial preamplifier of comparable quality is at least twice as expensive. Hi-fi is probably the most misused term in the audio and music world. Properly used in connection with sound reproduction equipment it means that the equipment can pro- duce sounds that are as nearly as possible a faithful reproduction of the original, and at a level that offers the listener almost the same ampli- tude as he would have obtained from the original source. The limitations of most sound reproduction equipment and the general acoustics of the room in which the equipment operates prevent these conditions being satisfied in virtually all cases. Not much can generally be done about the room acoustics, but the equipment can be made as ...