The photos aren't much to look at as I pulled the pre & power supply out of my rack and just snapped a few. I just sent them to Carl so he'll post em.
The pre does come with a lifetime warranty
,always a good thing.
What is very impressive is the quality of the internals.Laid out beautifully and check out them solder joints. Tom's in his mid 60's and has been doing this just about his entire life and you can tell.
Each one is hand built so 6-8 weeks is the normal wait time, I'm sure it is a little longer on the phono pre as there are no transformer's, tubes do the work, as it is a lot more complicated then the linestage. Tom has me pretty excited as he believes his forte is building phono preamps and has made many over the years. I can remember the late Ronnie Kaplan who use to be the Koetsu distributor for the US before he passed away at way to young of an age, raving about the phono stages Tom builds.
I believe they are only for low output MC's though. Recommended carts in the range of .2mv to .6mv only as the gain on the phonopre is between 60-62db, I'll check to make sure though.Don't quote me on this but 4 tubes are used 12ax7,12au7,12aT7 or 12au7, and 12SN7/12SQ7 for each channel.Then of course the tube power supply which incorporates the 6X5 rectifier tube again.
Well, it getting late,
Later,
Bill
