Engstrom Monica MK3 / FX 01
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Location: Maine Joined: August 16, 2011 |
Hi, in the quest to have a simple path for an audio signal coming from my Dynaco ST35 and going to a preamp I spent time as a hobby building passive preamps.I used the best components I could find and kept things as simple as possible.Alps Black Beauty pots,gold jacks, silver wire,ect.All was well until a while back I took a chance and bought this little buffer preamp the FX O1 off Ebay for 35 bucks.It is made in China.It blew all the passives away. One option was to invest 20 more bucks for 2 GE tubes.It is built like a tank,has 1 stereo volume control,I'm not sure of the make,looks like a Bourns,and gold jacks.As good as it sounds or doesn't, it puts on a light show like a planetarium in the dark with 2 LED's near the tube sockets.EStat or MHardy came up with a picture of the innards sometime ago,I will try to dig it up.Thanks you,you guys. So it's hot today and I dug out a Stereophile with a review by Jason Victor Serinus a few months ago with his review of a line preamp called the Engstrom Monica Mark 3 line preamp.I think the cost was a mere 60 thousand dollars.There were no internal pictures provided in Jason's review.What's inside for that kind of coin?, I keep asking myself.It may have more switching ability but will more components in a line preamp or buffer,both tubed, offer a better sound or non sound? Just a little question that's been puzzling me, take care, Mark Korda
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| RE: Engstrom Monica MK3 / FX 01, posted on June 21, 2024 at 09:22:15 | |
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Location: Maine Joined: August 16, 2011 |
 Hi, here is the inside picture,Mark
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| RE: Engstrom Monica MK3 / FX 01, posted on June 21, 2024 at 13:19:30 | |
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Location: fstein Joined: May 18, 2006 |
looks like a $29 aliexpress special?
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