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| Warm, yet detailed tube preamp Just wanted to thank @mwood for the kind words and let the audiogon community know who this humble member is, namely Marshall Wood, bass player for Tony Bennett for over a decade and for many other artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods, Joe ... | |
| PREAMPLIFIER UPGRADE QUESTION Gentlemen, We saw the mentions of our preamps here, and the critique of our website, backertlabs.com. We were confused at first, because we thought it was fine… Then we accessed it on a mobile phone. We can now say in response to those comme... | |
| Preamp Choice... a hard call for me. Funny that this started with a question about a preamp and everybody is now talking about DACs!We doubt there is anything wrong with the Denon. We used a 2900 for years and it performed very well, and will certainly be a stout transport if you ... | |
| Best Preamp New or Used up to $3,000 ?? Hi there,Just to clarify some things mentioned here,- Our preamps have a very low output impedance of 75 ohms, meaning we can drive any power amplifier nicely- All of our current models’ XLR inputs and outputs are fully differential balanced (deal... | |
| Backert Labs Rhumba preamp Hello - nice to see this thread, we thank milpai and the rest of you. Something above referred to "the higher output impedance of the preamp" .... actually the Rhumba 1.2 preamp has an output impedance of less than 75 ohms, which is quite low. It ... | |
| Another preamp suggestion thread for my Kharma/Mac combo Agree with soix, excellent preamps in the running here. To answer - all of the new Backert Labs preamps are balanced, with the more affordable models including 1 balanced input and 1 output (in addition to 3 RCAs in and 2 out). With your speakers,... | |
| The Backert Labs Rhumba 1.2 Extreme Woody we thank you for the kind words. Your knowledge of our Rhumba 1.2 and the Rhumba 1.2 Extreme - impressive!! One thing: the power supply capacitors for both models are polypropylene. Thank you for your support,-Andy | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it Hi Realdeal,This thread was started on August 24. Thanks, | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it Ha! You know, one name we actually received was "Cash In Advance 1.1"....Our next product will likely be a phono pre, sometime in 2016, and hopefully we'll do another giveaway. It was way more work than I thought it would be, but I think it was a ... | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it Responding to Tubegroover:"Congradulations to the winner and Backert Labs for coming up with a great marketing idea to gain exposure to their new pre-amp. I wish Backert Labs great success with their new Rhumba!"Thank you! It's great to hear your ... | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it Sorry that we couldn't please everybody, but guess you never can! Rhumba felt good in our gut, so we went with it!Blues... excellent. Also received "Method" (this one took us a while to get... Rhythm .... Method.... see, our company is all about b... | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it We received this from Terry "Teajay" London... the first reaction we have gotten to the new preamp from a reviewer who heard it in his own system:"Just about a year ago I had the great pleasure of reviewing for hometheaterreview.com the Backert La... | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it OK we have decided, and the name of our new preamp is:Rhumba! Victor from Lawrenceberg, IN was the winning entrant and will receive his preamp next week. We are currently preparing to notify all who entered via email (which requires yours truly to... | |
| I know nothing : Budget Under $1k Hi there,If you're looking for 2-ch with most bang for the buck we suggest getting the most Odyssey that you can afford. They are sold direct from the Indiana factory so there is no dealer markup. As a result they are like half the price you would... | |
| Free $3K preamp to lucky listener who names it Czarivey, under the rules we have to notify the winner by Oct. 15. We will announce the winning preamp name after we have heard back from the winner and we make sure they were eligible to win... under the rules, if they take too long to respond (m... |