[lizardman]

I was considering building one of these fine clarinet preamplifiers and was wondering about how they work/match with Solid state amplifiers. The current ss amp I own has a reported input impedance of 100k ohms, so that doesn't (to me) sound like an issue.

But I was wondering, if I ever changed amps what I might be wary (if that is an issue at all) of matching with the Clarinet. Sounds like tube amplifiers or certainly Hagerman amps would match well of course.

Tx for your time!

LM

[amandarae]

My 2 cents....

The output impedance of the Clarinet is 3k!  That is approximately 33.33X your amplifier input Z at 100k.  Many said that to be safe, the ratio between the two (Zin Amp/Zout preamp) should be at least 10 times. You should not have a problem at all.