Yeah, agreed....emrr wrote: I don't get the 1567 thing; they are okay, but really not that good when compared to the bazillion other pro audio preamps of the era. I get a 1567, I sell it and buy better antique stuff. The Eddie Ciletti article that started the whole 1566/1567 craze was based on one fact: they were both cheap as dirt at the time of writing, as were the transformers. IMO the prices of the last 10 years hold no justification other than as evidence of fad.
I recently thinned the herd on my pres, and here's a pic of what I kept...
The Peavey, believe it or not, hangs right in there with the 1567a, which I do like a lot, especially on ribbons...
The Ampex is another pre that is supposedly overrated and faddish, but it does do something that I have a hard time getting on modern pres, again with ribbons...
I have an RCA BA6A limiter that has an XLR on it, and functions very nicely as a pre...emrr wrote: The RCA stuff back to 1945 is all great too.
Hardly 400 bucks a channel though....