The May 78 Preamplifier

I will over some time show all details available on this preamplifier.  First, the line stage. The specifications achieved is shown below:

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The design was made very similar to the "Otala" designs.  It was a single power supply design, note the input and output capacitors. It was designed to replace our old completely single-ended preamplifier, which was never a big hit.