Location: Near Saffron Walden, Essex
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I'm Dave.
Spoke with him a couple of days ago but he is away now.
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 225
I'm John.
Personally, I'd have gone for the micro A, which has a better power supply.
Assuming that it's all in good order.
Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.
Location: Sheffield
Posts: 225
I'm John.
Location: London, UK
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I'm James.
He told me he’s busy while the cricket World Cup is on. I was looking for an upgrade and he said wait til July.
This is all part of the reason I love Croft. Superb-sounding, non-flashy valve amps named after a guy whose surname means small Scottish farm and who stops all work for cricket. Could you get any more British than that?
Well apart from the fact that I know how good Croft amps sound, they are now elevated to a whole new level of desirability after reading this! (And I don't even like cricket! )
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That all looks normal to me. It has the MOSFet power supply filtering rather than valve regulation of earlier/other models.
It is unlikely that anything would need a service, the design is conservative and very low power so things run cool.
I could check it over for you if you get no joy with Glenn.
Once again Croft don't reply to emails, but I would like this Micro 25 pre looked over and possibly implement the mod as suggested by Ian below:
"I hope all is well with you and the 909 ! When using my 25R with a 909 GC advised this.....
If you change the line stage valve in the 25R to a 12BH7a that will reduce the output impedance of the amp so that it will be able to drive the Quad properly.
Adding....
It's an impedance issue which will affect fidelity.
I don't know whether this would apply to the 25, I'm not technically minded, but thought I'd flag this up."
Been listening to the Croft for a month or two now with my 909 and it sounds a tad rough I must say. My system is not quite there yet.
Current system 1210 GR. CDP - Meridian G08. Amp -Sugden A21I - Sig. Wharfedale Lintons.