CONRAD JOHNSON PV 8 Tube Pre Amp MINT!

Description

The PV-8 has an extraordinary ablity to capture musical rythms, and thus bring out brillance and exitement.There is a fine sence of depth to the stage, and the image is wide and exact. The string sound is very good, warm and smooth. Voices are reproduced with great body and naturalness.Cymbals have an exiting, metallic shimmer and vibes emit globelike notes, rounded and liquid.
It was the first all-tube zero-feedback design from conrad-johnson.
The phono stage consists of a gain block, a passive RIAA network, and a second gain block. The line stage consists of a single gain block. These stages use polypropylene capacitors bypassed by a polystyrene capacitor for the output stages. Even the main dc power supplies used polypropylene capacitors – there are no electrolytic capacitors in the audio circuits or their related power supplies. Paralleled triode sections at the phono input yield nearly 3 dB improvements in the signal to noise ratio over a single input tube.