Is the Eico HF 81 really that good?


I read about the little Eico integrated in Stereophile. They said it was incredible. Does anyone here have any direct experience with this unit?
baranyi

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Eico tended to use a lot of ceramic disk caps in places they should not have- such as coupling caps. But their transformers were pretty good. So if you replaced the coupling caps (and of course have the power supplies rebuilt) their stuff sounds just fine.

I rebuilt one of their preamps and ran it for years, although I ran it with an external supply.