Teddy Pardo PR1

[CageyH]

Does anybody have any experience of this pre-amp?
One has just come up for sale locally, and it seems perfect for my needs. I was just wondering if there is any feedback from real world users.

[Firebottle]

Looks ideal, though not had any experience with it.
What is the input impedance of the Proprius mono blocks?

I can't seem to find it specified anywhere,

:cool: Alan

[CageyH]

I have dropped the question. On the GSP forum.
If I get a response, I will let you know.

[CageyH]

Apparently


It's 47k impedance on balanced i.e. phase to phase across pins 2 and 3. Either phase to ground is 23k5.

[Firebottle]

That's going to be a little bit low for some valve based preamps, depending on the circuit configuration of course.

Just a heads up for you,

:cool: Alan

[CageyH]

Thanks Alan.
So the PR1 could work out best.

[windhoek]

I've got the Pre1/MB100s combo and think it sounds great with the ATC 7s I recently borrowed and am sure they'll work just as well, if not better, with the ATC 11s that should arrive on Tuesday.

Last week I took them on a mini-demo tour of Glasgow and the results were quite surprising.

Demo 1: AVA digital streaming into ART speakers and the owner thought there were no losses compared to his Naim 252/300 combo and, has since contacted Teddy with a view to buying the Pre1/MB100 combo!

Demo 2: LP12 into Martin Logan Vista speakers and it wasn't at all good compared to his Nait XS/ Teddycap combo. This demo took place in a small room and it did seem like there was too much sound for the room to accommodate; it might also be his current combo was a better match for his speakers and room size.

I'm about to go to a 4.0 setup and the the only reason I envisage selling my TP combo is if I need to free up shelf space and and would consider replacing the combo with a TP i80a, but have no intentions whatsoever to replace my amp with anything else.