I built this about 5 years ago, and spared no expense. It's upgraded with Goldpoint dual mono attenuators and a Goldpoint selector switch, Goldpoint knobs, upgraded RCA jacks, silver wire with teflon sleeves and Superior Zcap capacitors, which were the recommended caps in Troels Gravesen's workup of the GG preamp (
http://www.troelsgravesen.dk/GG.htm). It also has a custom made faceplate from Front Panel Express, and a really nice blue LED pushbutton power switch. The preamp works perfectly and sounds terrific. It's currently set up for 12dB gain, but this is easily changed to 18 or 24dB with the swap of 4 resistors.. I have paired this with Quicksilver Horn Mono amps (very nice pairing), Welborne Star Chief 45 monoblocks, Alan Eaton 45 monoblocks, a First Watt J2, Odyssey Khartago SS amps and I'm sure a couple other amps I can't recall. It pairs easily with a wide variety of power amps. Asking $750 shipped. It is in great shape, functions perfectly and sounds terrific. The only cosmetic defect is one corner of the case, but it is totally behind the faceplate and not at all visible. And it obviously doesn’t affect the performance in any way (and it looks a lot worse in the photo than in real life). I will include any spare 12au7 tubes I have in my stash, as I don’t have any other equipment that uses that tube. It will, of course, ship with a full complement of tubes, and a generic power cord.
I would entertain a trade or partial trade for a quality CDP or transport, or a standalone R2R ladder DAC that would be an appreciable improvement over the DAC in my Cambridge CXN v2 streamer.Asking
$750 $700 or trades as mentioned above. I’ll cover shipping in the CONUS. Contact me with any questions.
Tom
