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Pros & Cons
Pros
The key is to swap out the tubes that comes with the unit to the ge tubes listed above for around 16 bucks. Nos ge jan 5654w tubes available on amazon and other places. Amazing highs and upper mids, the lower end is a little less crisp.
The mp3s are all 320 kbps, (i wish i could find a card large enough to have all my music in a lossless format as i do on my computer) the sound is warm and crisp. It actually sounds much, much, much better than my faithful soundcraftsmen. It sounds ab... Read More
The smsl m6 is a very detailed sounding pre-amp that most will enjoy listening to. Bought this to replace a 70s crwon power amp.
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Quality
Still using chinese tubes and sound quality is very good, probably will upgrade later.
I am so amazed with the performance of this preamp.
There is one thing i am dissatisfied with - the power cord is very short, maybe two feet long .
I did not even bother with the original chinese tubes and put ge jan 5654w that i had from my other amps.
Price
I was worried if this would work because the price is so low although because of the price i decided to give it a go.
Packaging/appearance
At any rate i'm happy with my purchase and can't wait to try them with my qsc kw-153's next time i get the pa out.
Time to go blow the dust off the jbl's!
I received a bad main board and the seller was very good in working with me in replacing the part.
Competitiveness
I am running it with a emotiva a100 power amp and emotiva stealth pre amp.
Makes all the difference in the world!
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- This product had a total of 66 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 14 2023.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I have lived with this preamp for a month and its time to review this little guy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I hooked this up as it comes for about a week and noticed a static sound coming from my speakers independent of the volume setting
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This is not the tubes as some have mentioned this is the switching power supply generating noise
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I replaced this with a transformer type 12volt 3
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The stock tubes sound fine after some burn in but if you want to kick it up a notch get the nos ge jan 5654w tubes available on amazon and other places
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Hokey blue leds in the tube socket wellsbut i close my eyes
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I did the jan ge tube roll never listening to the unit wstock tubes
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I build high end bluetooth speakers and thought id check these out
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