The E-Glo Petit phono preamplifier is an ultra-compact electronic device with an attractive design and very careful construction - an aluminum enclosure topped by two beautiful wooden side panels - that borrows the technical solutions of its older brother, the sensational E-Glo, to put in the hands of the demanding hobbyist a sophisticated, powerful and affordable tool that allows them to get the most out of any pickup cartridge. The starting point of the new EAT phono preamplifier is a circuitry with a hybrid circuit topology, based on rigorously selected 12AX7 tubes, which are complemented by very high quality discrete components. Added to this is a power supply specially designed so that the aforementioned vacuum valves are maintained at their optimal operating temperature at all times.
This power supply includes elaborate regulation and filtering circuitry that includes very special 2SK209 low-noise J-FET transistors in a quad configuration, allowing the little EAT to exhibit an absolutely unusual signal-to-noise ratio for a tube-based preamplifier. empty. In line with what its older brother offers, the adjustment possibilities offered by the E-Glo Petit are extraordinarily generous whether moving coil (MC) or moving magnet (MM) cartridges are used, to the point that they allow optimization the operation of practically any pickup cartridge available on the market.
Characteristics:
- High End phono preamplifier with exceptional quality/price ratio.
- Hybrid architecture executed exclusively with discrete components.
- Compatible with moving coil (MC) and moving magnet (MM) cartridges.
- All-metal construction with wooden side panels.
- Custom designed power supply executed with J-FET transistors.
- High precision RIAA equalization (+/-0.1 dB between 20 and 20,000 Hz).
- Exceptional signal-to-noise ratio: 87 dB (measured with A-weighting).
- Two separate settings blocks for load impedance in MC designs.
- Six settings for the loading capacitance of MM capsules.
- Six gain settings: 40, 45, 50, 60, 65 or 70 dB
- High precision subsonic filter; unbalanced inputs and outputs.
- Dimensions: 226 x 78 x 262 mm (W x H x D).
