Posted on Sunday, 7th December 2008 by Auw Jimmy

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Last week, located at Audio Lifestyle Magazine office (also known as TubeLover showroom), held a Pre Amplifier Blind Test Session. If I could recall my brain correctly, we have 38 contenders, from Aikido 6SN7 Pre Amp, to antique #26/#27 Pre Amp. Well it was so nice and crowded session, from 10 am to 10 pm. Over 12 hours, 8 preliminary sessions (5 Pre Amp each) + 1 final session. I was sooo tired to judge in all those sessions (except session III where I need to receive some phone calls). We have 5 judges and some audience to pick favorite/people’s choice Pre Amp.

Enjoy some pics here. So many Pre Amp, so many design! The equipments was Consonance CD Player 2.2, Jadis Defy 7, and Tannoy Stirling full range speaker (with extra Fostex super tweeter).

From the tiny Pre Amp to a massive “dozens of tubes” Pre Amp. From small tube, to big, and miniature one!

One of the favorite. The build quality was awesome.

This was from Bandung. Almost two dozens of tubes only for Pre Amp!

Photos below are courtesy of Arif Wicaksono (TubeLover):

Judges and audience were listening the preamp one by one.

The champion. Simple tube, E182CC, but beat so many his bigger brothers!

Final photo. The session was ended around 10 pm at night. What a day!



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7 Responses to “Pre Amplifer “Free-for-All” Blind Test Session”

  1. Jimmy’s Junkyard » Blog Archive » My Aikido on the Box Says:
    December 8th, 2008 at 00:04

    [...] Jimmy’s Junkyard « Pre Amplifer “Free-for-All” Blind Test Session [...]



  2. Hendra Says:
    December 9th, 2008 at 07:32

    Bung Jimmy, cepet banget udah ada liputannya di blog anda …. :)



  3. Damar.N Says:
    April 16th, 2009 at 16:43

    ngileeerrrrr…



  4. Oscar Says:
    May 3rd, 2009 at 11:24

    Halo kakak semua, saya pengen tanya cara merakit dan membuat pre-amplifier, karena saya baru belajar di bangku sekolah STM klass 1, jadi saya mohon bantuan kakak saran dan bantuan cara belajar merakit pre amplifier.
    Mohon bantuannya. terima kasih



  5. Jimmy Auw Says:
    May 4th, 2009 at 21:42

    Halo Oscar,
    Pada dasarnya, kamu bisa mencari di Internet mengenai banyak skema pre-amp, mulai dari yang berbasis Solid State sampai Tube. Silakan dipilih dulu, dicobain, lalu nanti mulai utak atik sana sini.

    Selamat berexperimen!

    Thanks.



  6. Dan Haines Says:
    February 6th, 2010 at 12:15

    Do you remember how the Aikido 6SN7 faired in the contest?



  7. Jimmy Auw Says:
    February 6th, 2010 at 15:27

    Not too bad. Maybe a little bit less crispy…



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