{"id":1243,"date":"2013-02-20T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=1243"},"modified":"2013-02-20T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T20:42:07","slug":"26-dht-preamp-gen2-by-rui-lourenco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2013\/02\/20\/26-dht-preamp-gen2-by-rui-lourenco\/","title":{"rendered":"26 DHT Preamp Gen2 by Rui Louren\u00e7o"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rui’s 26 DHT preamp in operation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here is a great post by Rui Louren\u00e7o who finished a sublime incarnation of the 26 DHT preamp Gen2<\/a>. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

My Type 26 Tube Preamplifier adventure \u2013 by Rui Louren\u00e7o (Portugal)<\/h1>\n

I\u2019ve 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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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The project<\/h2>\n

After several preamplifiers done in the past, I decided to try to build a direct heated triode preamplifier myself; I had established some basic principles:<\/p>\n