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Originally posted by psyprof1:
Altec (I don't think I was here when you were Soundhound), what kind of MC cartridge (and presumably preamp) are you using? I'm pleased with the 990's performance with my Audio Technica or Grado Red but in ca$e I get the de$ire to upgrade . . .
The cartridge is a NOS "high output" moving coil distributed originally by SAE, which has a Shibata type stylus.

In common with a lot of my gear, the phono preamp I designed and built myself. The preamp is op-amp based, but with a few design tricks thrown in.

In two channel mode, this goes into one of the inputs of a vacuum tube preamp (pictured in my photos), and then goes to an active crossover, passive line-level EQ to replace the loudspeaker "voicing" that a passive crossover would normally accomplish, and finally to vacuum tube power amps: modified Dynaco 60 watt MK IIIs for the woofers and a modified 300B based single-ended-triode amp for the HF horns.