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Well with your headphones this is clearly true.

And of course a B52 is a (raptor) + (raptor) which means it (sucks)*(sucks)

or in terms of money

$1300+$1300 << $5300

A simple modification will allow the raptor to sound much better, but only with high impedance headphones (==300 ohms)

:dance:

There, I feel better now. A day without trashing my good friend ray is like a day without sunshine.

you forgot to add the Stealth in there, remember pre amp man..pre amp. ;)

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you forgot to add the Stealth in there, remember pre amp man..pre amp. ;)

No billy, you are wrong, wrong, just plain wrong. The stealth was even worse.

On the stealth the front end gain tube was also used as an ultra high impedance

preamp output. In other words it sucked bigtime. Could not even drive 3 feet

of cable. So ray learned from his serious mistakes, and on the B52 added a

simple cathode follower.

A simple cathode follower does not a preamp make. Better yes, but still massively

sucky. Anyone with brains should look at schematics of the audio research preamps,

and the conrad johnson preamps to see it done right. Schematics of both available

on the web.

Hell ray still can't do an analog 12 volt fillament supply... Which is why he is using

those $20 ultracrap ultranoisy switchers. Both on the Craptor and the B52.

Can't wait to see what ray is going to use as the battery charger for the lithium

battery in the predator. We should rename the predator, "the target of oportunity"

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Trose is an asshat. He thinks his "special" hr2 which just adds a gain switch warrants such a price. He likes everything personalized and special, then when he sells them, he prices them the highest, believing everyone idolizes him and would pay extra for something he owned and something specially made for HIM.

HR-2 Sold at full listing price! $900.00. :dance:

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No, but three rights make a left. Maybe that's what you're thinking of?

lol, funny AND true. ;)

Hey KG, a little off topic, but while we are on pre-amps... given the current state of my amp, how well do you think it would it work as one? I've yet to try it [no balanced power amp], but it does have the XLR outs on the back.

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Hey KG, a little off topic, but while we are on pre-amps... given the current state of my amp, how well do you think it would it work as one? I've yet to try it [no balanced power amp], but it does have the XLR outs on the back.

Don't have the pictures handy to see where the xlr preamp outputs are actually wired to.

1) if they are wired to the cathodes of the first tube, then its a simple cathode follower, however NO GAIN.

As the pot is the first thing in the circuit followed by the cathode follower.

3) The only other place would be the same as the headphone output jack. Definitely not a really

great place for a preamp output...

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Actually grawk I did not tell the whole story! Shame on me but since you all seem soooo interested in my purchases I will let you know the details of the sale.

Hr-2

Alo V-dock

Alo imod rca cable

Red wine V-dock ps

$2,150.00

This I swear is the truth or I'm not allowed to buy another RSA product!

Chew on that for a while

RSA ALO products are great and have tremendous re-sale value!

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