There was a posting on Canuck Audio Mart a few months ago showing the insides of one of his amps - it looked like a bowl of spaghetti with less than amateurish solder work and poor parts quality - a number of tech's weighed in and said it was worse than a boy scout project - globs of solder everywhere, resistors just twisted onto capacitor leads instead of a turret board or terminal strip, household romex used as B+ rails, etc. The owner then responded with a condescending statement basically saying "if you want it built properly, it wont sound as good". The CAM moderators removed the post presumably in support of one of their advertisers. I visited his garage in BC where he builds his amps a few years back......lets just say I was less than impressed.
Single input tube preamp
I'm looking for options for a 1-2 input tube preamp. Space-Tech Laboratory in Canada has the type I'm looking for but I don't know anything about them. If anyone has direct experience with them, please respond. Otherwise, I like to know about similar builders of small, tube line stage preamps.
Balanced preferred but not required. Thanks for any responses.