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Replacement for DeHavilland Ultraverve

I have a DeHavilland Ultraverve. It sounds great, no complaints.  I need a little more functionality-mono and phase buttons are what I'm after. I see a Herron 2A preamp on Audiogon. Any other suggestions would be appreciated. The rest of the system: Bryston 4B SST, Bryston 4B (2nd zone), Vandersteen 3A Sig, Luxman E1 phono, Amadeus with Dyna 20 LOMC, Marantz SA14S1 CD/SACD. Balanced connections are not a priority for my system. 
fbpearce
fbpearce OP
33 posts
 
Followup-I sent an email to DeHavilland about a mono switch. They asked for a couple of days to try to put a mono switch on one of their shop preamps and emailed back that it was feasible. I sent my Ultraverve to them and it got back quickly with  a toggle switch on top that gives me mono when I need it. It works well and sounds great. I get to keep the preamp I love and can now accommodate my vinyl recordings too. 
nitewulf
277 posts
 
Cool it worked out. I loved my dehaviland and replaced that with an Ayre K5xeMP which was better. They are both amazing preamps however.
pops
1,847 posts
 
Great to hear it worked out, I have been begging her to make a phono preamp.  Love my Ultraverve, great preamp.
fbpearce OP
33 posts
 
Nitewulf, just curious does the Ayre have mono? 
nitewulf
277 posts
 
Checking the manual, nope it doesn't have mono or phase reversal, assuming you are talking about a button that will bridge the outputs?


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