[mca]

Selling my Dehavilland Mercury III preamp with remote. This preamp is in excellent physical and operational condition. Comes with two full sets of tubes, one set came directly from Kara at DeHavilland. New these are $4495, selling for $2295 including shipping and Paypal.

 

[richidoo]

Beautiful!

What are those knobs on the top rear?

[mca]

Those are the optional trim control knobs.

[mca]

Action shot.

[marvda1]

i have the ultraverve 3,  what are the differences between the two?

[tipatina]

Wonder how this would drive Bryston power amps?

[sunnydaze]

Is the volume control stepped or continuous?

If stepped, are they small enough to allow for fine adjustment during late night low SPL listening?

Thanks!

Oh, earlier you mentioned controls for "trim adjustment".  What exactly is that.......the purpose for it.....and what
does it do to the sound?   Non technical layman's terms please.

[mca]

Per the DeHavilland website it's a "Custom made relay actuated analog computer controlled 32 step stepped attenuator". I felt the volume control was fine enough for me, and I normally listen at lower volume.

The trim adjustment controls allow for fine adjustment if your volume is out of balance. I never had that occur and never touched the controls.

[sunnydaze]

Ahhhhhh perfect! 

So if you do find the steps too big at a particular setting, you can fine tune with the trim pots.
Elegant solution, as I've owned stepped volume pots in the past and the inability to exactly fine tune the volume is a major turn off!

Thanks for the info.

[mca]

Bump