{"id":4265,"date":"2015-01-05T20:52:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T20:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2015-01-05T20:52:23","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T20:52:23","slug":"01a-preamp-gen2-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2015\/01\/05\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"01a Preamp Gen2 finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished.jpeg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4266\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2015\/01\/05\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished.jpeg?fit=1280%2C853&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1280,853\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"01a preamp gen2 finished\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished.jpeg?fit=840%2C559&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4266\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished.jpeg?resize=774%2C521\" alt=\"01a preamp gen2 finished\" width=\"774\" height=\"521\" \/><\/a>First build of 2015, just after the New Year. I&#8217;m pleased to listen to the <a title=\"01a Preamp: Build (Part 5)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2014\/12\/27\/01a-preamp-build-part-5\/\">01a preamp gen2<\/a> finished. It&#8217;s a beauty, only the warm sound of the 01a thoriated tungsten filaments can provide. A perfect match to the Starlight CD player that was lacking of a bit of gain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s dead quiet, the frequency response is superb and the dynamics are there. Very good bass that improves what I was getting out of the discrete DAC. I love listening to this preamp. A great pleasure. Thumbs up to the return of the 01a. My best Sylvania globe valves are now in use, yay!<\/p>\n<p>Will soon write a proper blog entry for this ultimate preamp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First build of 2015, just after the New Year. I&#8217;m pleased to listen to the 01a preamp gen2 finished. It&#8217;s a beauty, only the warm sound of the 01a thoriated tungsten filaments can provide. A perfect match to the Starlight CD player that was lacking of a bit of gain. It&#8217;s dead quiet, the frequency &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2015\/01\/05\/01a-preamp-gen2-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;01a Preamp Gen2 finished!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,233,156,67,5],"tags":[10,249,309,653,248],"class_list":["post-4265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dht-valves","category-music","category-pre-amplifier-valves","category-thd","category-valves","tag-01a","tag-01a-dht","tag-01a-preamp","tag-01a-preamp-gen2","tag-cx-301a"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-16N","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4267,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}