{"id":653,"date":"2012-09-08T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?p=653"},"modified":"2012-09-08T16:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T16:20:00","slug":"26-preamp-gen2-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2012\/09\/08\/26-preamp-gen2-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"26 Preamp Gen2 completed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, here it is. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120908-171437.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120908-171437.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20120908-171437.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120908-171450.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/20120908-171450.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20120908-171450.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Improved sound compared to LL1660 version. This OT (LL2745\/8mA)is better suited for the 26 in this configuration. Sacrificed output impedance a tad to get more gain. Filaments starved at 760mA. Distortion is as low as 0.02% @ 3Vrms output. <\/p>\n<p>First listening session with Mingus, exceeded my expectations. Rounder bass and more space. Like this sound!<br \/>\nWill do some proper measurements but for now will enjoy and listen to it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, here it is. Improved sound compared to LL1660 version. This OT (LL2745\/8mA)is better suited for the 26 in this configuration. Sacrificed output impedance a tad to get more gain. Filaments starved at 760mA. Distortion is as low as 0.02% @ 3Vrms output. First listening session with Mingus, exceeded my expectations. Rounder bass and more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/2012\/09\/08\/26-preamp-gen2-completed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;26 Preamp Gen2 completed&#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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,156,67,5],"tags":[779,6,186,785,46],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dht-valves","category-pre-amplifier-valves","category-thd","category-valves","tag-779","tag-dht","tag-dht-preamp","tag-ll2745","tag-preamp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2r2tK-ax","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","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=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":654,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions\/654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}