* sold* Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp

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* sold* Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« on: 5 Nov 2010, 06:42 pm »
Selling a Superphon SP-100 that Stan Warren recently upgraded. It was a great sounding preamp and Stan brought it up to todays standards, upgrading many of the components. It is a true buffered line stage.

About the SP-100:
The jacks are custom made, gold-over-brass. The volume and balance controls are custom made Bourns conductive plastic. The unit is direct coupled, so there aren't any caps in the signal path. It is a true diamond buffer. The input impedance is high and the output impedance is low. The bandwidth is very large and the distortion remains constant with frequency over the audio band.

Stans Upgrades:
Fet diodes - current regulators in place of resistors in the input, bigger main supply caps, discrete shunt regulators replaced the Zener diodes, bigger rectifiers and a few resistor and grounding changes. A larger power supply (toroidal transformer) was also added along with an IEC connector. The unit was also Cyro-Frozen. Stan felt that the sound was remarkable and easily the best version of the SP100 he has ever heard.Why am I selling this? I recently tested 2 different tubed preamps with my system, and I want to go with a tubed preamp.

$325 from 19363, link below has pics.

http://cgi.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cl.pl?preatran&1304615196&item
« Last Edit: 12 Mar 2011, 01:24 am by etcarroll »

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #1 on: 8 Nov 2010, 03:34 am »
Any idea what the output impedance is?

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #2 on: 8 Nov 2010, 08:35 pm »
Stan's upgrade was to bring it inline with the Revelation II pre, which has an output impedance of 600 ohms.

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #3 on: 21 Nov 2010, 04:14 am »
bump bump and bump

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #4 on: 21 Nov 2010, 10:23 pm »
Price reduced to a pre-gobbleday of $325.00.

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #5 on: 1 Dec 2010, 03:12 pm »
Dec. bump.

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #6 on: 6 Mar 2011, 05:04 pm »
Need to cover purchase of a phono preamp, this is for sale again.

Also a lightly used TEC TC 760LC phono pre for $60.

http://www.avartix.net/english/TC-760LC-Preamp.html

I'll let them go as a package for for $339.99, plus shipping.

The Superphon


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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #7 on: 7 Mar 2011, 01:41 pm »
Can I see more pics of the pre-amp???

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Re: Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #8 on: 7 Mar 2011, 02:04 pm »
Ooops - my bad, I needed to update the link in 1st post, it's up to date now, with 4 pics, and here's one more.



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Re: * sold* Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #9 on: 12 Mar 2011, 01:25 am »
Superphon is sold.

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Re: * sold* Superphon SP-100 Buffered Preamp
« Reply #10 on: 12 Mar 2011, 02:30 am »
Alright Etcarroll