Barry French’s 26 DHT preamp

26 DHT Preamp (by Barry French)

After owning several high quality pre-amps & modifying some of them to some degree or another, I decided to have a go at building a top quality unit, so here goes first I needed to build the power supplies for filaments & B+ in a separate case, I already had some idea of the look & design that I wanted to follow, so I sourced the following components from these suppliers:

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26 DHT Preamp Gen2 by Rui Lourenço

Rui's 26 DHT preamp in operation
Rui’s 26 DHT preamp in operation

Here is a great post by Rui Lourenço who finished a sublime incarnation of the 26 DHT preamp Gen2.  I hope you find this post as inspiring as delightful it is for me to see someone taking my 26 DHT preamp version to the next level of perfection. I think Rui’s pictures will speak for themselves showing the great craftsman skills and amount of effort and dedication put into this art work.

My Type 26 Tube Preamplifier adventure – by Rui Lourenço (Portugal)

I’ve started my interest in diy audio about 2 decades ago, basically at that time because I had no means of buying some of the fantastic equipment’s I saw in several Audio Shows, also because the bug was there, and some of my friends were doing it. Today, fortunately I have the means, but the bug was kept and personally I believe that good implemented diy projects can most of the times be several notches above commercial products, or otherwise you would have to spend some important thousands of Euros to acquire them at a similar performance level. You all agree that the personal filling of achievement vs your friends drop jaws when looking to some of the wonderful projects we find everywhere, is also very good.

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