Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
Hi Tom,



Indeed, but mine (and Jo's) is somewhat of a departure from any Croft that's sold now!

It's been heavily modified, with all sorts of tasty bits inside, not least of which are the bigger octal-type valves (6SL7s), which make the ECC83s (and the like) used in current Croft preamps sound positively limp and anaemic... As such, I'd quite happily put it up against other valve preamps on the market at any price

Marco.
Indeed... The current pre's are good but once you have dipped in to what can be done with the older Octal valves there is no going back.



Also, my pre should be back with me on Monday, it's had another upgrade to 6SN7's in the line stage keeping 6SL7's in the phono. So now it uses 3 6SN7's and 6SL7's whilst utilising the dual regulation. Should be very interesting. - I'll bring it over, Marco for a listen very soon