Personal Preamp Evolution - May 2012


I found an old thread on this topic from 2003 and would like to know what people are using now. My preamp evolution:

late 70's...Dyanco PAS-3
1984...Hafler 100
1986...Hafler 110
1989...Hafler 110 modded by Musical Concepts
1998...Creek OBH-12 Passive
2004 to present... Placette Audio Passive Linestage
dks22
Kenwood L07C
Sumo Electra
Integrated SS
Integrated SS
Integrated Tubed
PS Audio 6.2
Sumo Athena II
Coda CL
I use a Music First pure silver transformer based linestage. Beats all passive resistive linestages and all active preamps IME.

Steve N.
Empirical Audio