Altec Stereo preamp ?

[wllm59]

howdy folks just looking for a little insight!!!!!......I was wondering , did Altec make a tube variety home stereo preamp ?........if so , any idea of the quality ?....what is the best home model tube preamp they did make , the 440 ?..........thanks , wllm59

[Todd W. White]

Altec made some really NICE tube stuff for home hi-fi. Well behaved, lots of headroom.

There's not a lot on the net right now on them, but I have a huge amount of scans of old Altec lit that no one seems to have that I am trying to get assembled for my website's library.

Watch for an announcement on the ALTEC USER'S BOARD (http://www.hostboard.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/ubb/forum/f/3729) about it...

[10 Watt Street]

Several of the preamps are shown at:

http://www.hifilit.com/hifilit/Altec/Altec.htm

[Todd W. White]

Yes, but those are not the ones I meant - these were from later - into the 1960's before the SS stuff came out (which worked really well, too! - not the later stuff made by Hitachi: the ALTEC-made SS stuff!).