Tube Pre - Input transformer shootout - help.

I'm glad you included both the soloed vocal and another with music.

I was torn between samples 2 and 3 when just listening to the soloed vocal, but with the accompanying music I thought Sample 3 took the win.

Sample 2 was also great, but the lack of any resonance in the high mids on Sample 3 made it sit better with the music I thought. Amazing balance of lows, mids, highs and intelligibility.

Wow, what a mic! I feel like #3 lets all of the nuance of the u47 come through.

First of all, excellent shootout here. The vocal is spectacular (pretty rare on shoot-outs), and the solo plus in-the-mix, I mean….this is the standard by which to measure all shoot-outs, everyone take heed!

2 takes the cake. 3 is too hairy for me. 2 has a smoothness in the upper mids and just a really pleasant and “vintage” focus. I’d guess 1 is not your preamp as that sounds the most sterile to me, we’ll see how much I know hahaha…I’m looking forward to the reveal that they’re all actually identical

Thanks for the reveal..

After listening on different headphones and monitors I now have an even stronger preference for Sample #3 = Cinemag

In fact I'm interested in buying one of these preamps from you with the CMMI-10 input transformer, but I have a couple of questions. I'll PM you

I voted for 2 but I was really close to voting for 3. It was easy for me to eliminate 1 and 4. I thought 2 was more even sounding - especially on the vocal, whereas I felt there were certain words that kind of poked out on #3

3 to me is the best choice in a new preamp, matched perfectly with the backing tracks like they all used the same pre. I really liked 1, there’s some weird resonant thing that the louder I listen, the more I enjoy it. It doesn’t match into the backing track, but for rock/pop might be awesome? It would be hard to imagine spending a ton of money for that tone though, seems not very flexible. As a button press add on feature maybe?